Melkite Catholic ☦️ * Palestinian, 1948 Diaspora (2nd Gen) 🇵🇸 Born in New York City, USA 🇺🇸 Raised in Perth, Australia 🇦🇺 Advocate of love and peace 🕊 *My grandparents were displaced from their homes by force from the village of Al-Damoun in 1948. That village currently exists within the State of Israel in the Galilee region. Israeli immigration policy prohibits non-Jewish natives to return as equal citizens. Israeli COGAT policy prohibits the Palestinian Authority from granting citizenship to 1948 & 1967 diaspora Palestinians. —————————— ⚔️ The Demographic War ⚔️ The Israeli Palestinian conflict is completely unique in the sense that it’s not a conventional conflict between two countries like India and Pakistan. It’s also not a dispute between a regular state and a section of its own citizens who want a separate country. eg. Scottish people are all British citizens, but some still want to separate out Scotland. Palestinians are not citizens of Israel. They come in many different categories whether you’re a part of the 1948 diaspora & 1967 diaspora (7 million), live in Gaza (2 million), West Bank (3 million), East Jerusalem (0.36 million) or an actual citizen of Israel (2 million). What the root of this conflict is, stems from the desire of a foreign-born Jewish population that lived in Europe but also in the Islamic world, to come into Palestine and create a state for themselves. This meant they all needed to move and settle there through a process they call Aliyah, and at some point, was always going to marginalise the native-born non-Jewish inhabitants because they made up 92% of the population. The foreign-born Jewish Zionist population could not simultaneously build a Jewish democratic state and make the native-born non-Jewish population equal citizens without changing these demographic ratios to create a Jewish demographic majority. The only way this was logistically possible was to displace the native-born non-Jewish population (which is exactly what happened in 1948).