Zionists Started the War - Not Palestine
This is so simple, guys. Listen carefully:
You can't build an ethno-state...
...in a land where the chosen ethnicity...
...is only 4% of the population.

In 1899, when the zionists formally selected Palestine as their target for colonization, Jews were 4% of the population there.
Now tell me how this works: How do you create a Jewish ethno-homeland in a land that's 4% Jewish?
Zionism's stated purpose was (and still is):
to provide Jews with a homeland that is sovereign and reliably Jewish, so that it will always serve and protect Jews and Jewish interests. A place for Jews to take refuge, if the rest of the world becomes antisemitic.
That's the "mission statement" of zionism.
And that's impossible if the land is only 4% Jewish. In order to make it a Jewish ethno-state, Jews need to be a solid majority - a supermajority in fact - of the population. You need 70-80% of the population to be one ethnicity, in order for that ethnicity to sustainably rule the land in perpetuity. Anything less than that, and the minorities will have too much voting power, and they will vote for their interests, and the state might function as a multicultural melting pot, but not as THE safe-haven of specifically the Jewish people.
Palestine/Israel could not serve as a reliable homeland for Jews unless that 4% number dramatically increased, to 70-80%.
And you, dear reader, know this. This is Logic 101. A kindergartener could figure this out. Don't pretend it's open for debate. It's not. This isn't opinion. It's MATHEMATICS.
So right from the outset, zionism required the re-engineering of the ethnic makeup of Palestine.

Now let's use our logical brains. A declaration of intent to re-engineer the ethnic makeup of someone else's land is a declaration of war.
Imagine if China declared their intention to make the United States a "Chinese homeland", which would be a safe-haven for the protection of Chinese interests forever.
That's WAR, folks. And the early zionists knew it.
Now, pretend you're Theodore Herzl, writing about zionism in the 1800's, when Jews are 4% of Palestine, and you need to get them up to a supermajority. How do you do this?

Well, you've got two tools:
- Addition
- Subtraction
You can add Jews to the mix, through immigration...
But there's a problem with that, because other groups can immigrate at the same time! If you open the land to Jewish immigration from Europe, then what's stopping Arabs from immigrating from the neighboring lands?
Nothing, of course.
So what can you do?
Well, you're gonna need to use that second tool: Subtraction. In other words, you're going to have to remove people.

And that could mean exile - but who lets themselves get exiled from their home without a fight? Practically nobody. So in order to make them leave, you'll have to kill them.

Again, this is LOGIC, and MATH, and it's not disputable. And the early zionists knew it, in the back of their minds. Herzl and Jabotinsky weren't stupid. They knew this... from the beginning.
Genocide was always baked into the cake. There was never a way to make zionism work without it. Zionism REQUIRES genocide. Zionism FAILS without genocide. And that was as clear in 1899 as it is today, because people in 1899, just like us, had access to MATH.
And people in Palestine were no exception. They had already discovered math, centuries earlier. In fact, that region, the Fertile Crescent, is the birthplace of literacy. The concept of reading and writing was invented there. So it's safe to assume that, by 1899, Palestinians could read.
And that means they could read the New York Times article: "We Will Colonize Palestine."

Now, given that the locals in Palestine had access to both reading and math, we can assume that they were capable of deducing the zionists' ultimate plans for them - just like we can, today. We don't need the current Holocaust in Gaza (and the West Bank, and now Lebanon) to tell us what the intentions always were - because we have MATH AND LOGIC for that.
You can't build a Jewish ethno-state in a land that is 4% Jewish. You need a Jewish supermajority in order to achieve that. And you need to exile, disenfranchise, and kill the Non-Jews, in order to attain the Jewish supermajority.
That's why Ben Gurion and his terrorists killed and exiled 750,000 people, in the Nakba of 1947. It wasn't for "defense." It wasn't a "response to an attack." It was demographics engineering. Also known as "ethnic cleansing."

These two pie charts are for the same land area - the land that would become the original "State of Israel", in its 1949 borders.
To make Israel "work", they had to get rid of 700,000+ people.
We know that this was intentional, and premeditated, because:
-Israel wouldn't have "worked" without it
-People back then weren't morons, and they knew Israel wouldn't have worked without it.
This ethnic cleansing was ALWAYS BAKED IN. From the start. And they knew it. And it was pre-planned. Because it HAD TO BE. Because "Israel" would FAIL WITHOUT IT.
Do you understand?
And yes, the zionists wrote about it, back then. Here is a sampling of some of their quotations, proving their awareness of the need to commit genocide to make the Israel project work:


You see? They knew.
"An Arab Palestine is a threat to Great Britain and a menace to the world; a Jewish Palestine is an asset to Great Britain and a blessing to the world."
Imagine if someone said, "A black Mississippi is a menace, and a white Mississippi is a blessing."
Imagine how you'd view that person, and their intentions.
Here's one more, for now:

And it's no different today. The Jewish extremists of today want to take over the entire land, "from the river to the sea." Those are the Likud Party (Netanyahu's party's) own words, from their charter.

And here is Netanyahu's own son, Yair, bragging about it:

Now think: What happens if they succeed at this, and the 7+ million Palestinians in the occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank) get added to the population of the state of Israel?

We encounter the same "problem" that Herzl and the early zionists had. This can't be a Jewish ethno-state anymore. Not with numbers like these. The very next election would result in a Knesset split down the middle. And Palestinian interests would be a roughly equal priority with Jewish ones. And the zionist project fails.
The first thing the new split Knesset would do is liberalize immigration rules for Arabs. Next, the Arabs get a majority. Next, they would change the name of the country from "State of Israel" back to "State of Palestine." And that would be only the start! Suffice it to say, the state no longer functions for the purpose zionism intended... and the whole project... fails.
So if Israel takes over Gaza, and the West Bank, and the whole land is "Israel from the river to the sea", Israel will have to... do something... with all these Non-Jewish people.
There are only 3 options:
- Kill them
- Exile them
- Disenfranchise them (prevent them from voting)
So it's either genocide or apartheid. Or some combination.
Any way you slice it, this shit has no rightful place in our world.
But, we can fix it with the Law of Return!
Which law of return? The Jewish one or the Palestinian one?

How come Jews have a "right" to return after 2000 years (when not a single one can prove direct descent from anyone living that long ago), but Palestinians have no such right, after less than 80 years (when many of the exiles are still literally alive)?
Apartheid, that's why.
Because the Jewish fanatics in Israel think Non-Jews aren't human.
A rabbi saying non-jews are "not the children of God."
"Arabs are inferior to us"
"The Jewish soul comes from a higher elevated form of spirituality than the non-jew."
And this is not a new development. It has a basis in centuries of Jewish thought - including from the most famous and revered religious figures in rabbinic Judaism.
Here is Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, saying Jews and Non-Jews are "two different species."

And here are his disciples, faithfully carrying the message forward:

And here it is, in the Talmud:

They've always thought like this.
And this is why they thought they had a right to take over that land and murder everyone living there. They don't view the natives as human. And they never did.
This idea of a "Jewish homeland" was a genocidal endeavor from the very start, and Palestinians had (and still have) a right to fight it, with any and all means at their disposal, including armed warfare.
The biggest question is... why did they wait so long?
Why didn't they start in 1899?
Why did they let boats full of zionists dock in Jaffa Harbor?
Why didn't they fire at the ships and turn them around?
Why did they welcome zionists into their land?
Perhaps the people of Palestine suffered from what Elon Musk calls "suicidal empathy."
Their empathy has cost them a century of heartbreak and horror.
They did not start the war. Zionists did.
And zionists and ultimately responsible for every drop of blood that has spilled from it.
Don't ever let anyone convince you otherwise.