We all live in a place that was once stolen. That's all he's saying and you said you know that.
He's telling you that the mistake was done in the past and you can't fix it by making another same mistake. It's easy to understand.
You can't tell a 60 year old that the place he's living for his entire life isn't his home, because it is his home. He knows no other home.
You can't tell a 30 year old that the house he lives in all his life isn't his home and it's Rebel's , just because his grandfather settled there after someone expelled Rebel's grandfather from there.
Yes but we didn't have rules, regulations and internationally recognized borders back then. History was always about the stronger party stealing land from the weaker party, there is no doubting that at all. But now we have borders, we have rules, we have regulations, we have treaty's, we have conventions, we have international bodies like the UN, they shouldn't allow this sort of thing to happen.
I will bring my example once again, what if we deported the Berbers in North Africa to Europe, they occupy Croatia, in 50 years time, will you say that their children have the same right to Croatia as your children? Come on, that is absolutely ridiculous.
I would agree, that deporting the Jews is impractical and even impossible, and might indeed not be fair at all. But i would never agree to a dual state, they should not be given one space of Palestinian land. Another possible solution is to do what is happening in Lebanon, where they have a lot of diversity in terms of religious sects, they divide government positions between the different religions and different religious sects. The president is always a maronite christian, the prime minister is a sunni muslim and the speaker of the national assembly is a shiite muslim.
Even in theory this sounds funny. I don't know how do they imagine this to be done in practice.
Where in Europe?
So can we take a house from an Israeli family, give it to a Palestinian family and then kick Rab out of his house in Romania so we will give it to the Israeli family because one of the grandparents was originally from Romania?
Oh wait.....we have so many North Africans and other Arabs in Europe. Europe isn't their real home. Lets kick all of them out and inhabit the Jews in their places.
Sounds like a plan.
We can tell them that we are deporting them to Europe, and then we can burn the ships in the middle of the ocean. Cheap, effective and efficient. You can thank me later.