Oh, absolutely! If hundreds of thousands of Palestinians hadn't inconveniently chosen to leave their ancestral homes and villages during the 1948 Nakba, everyone would be living in perfect harmony today. It was terribly impolite of them to have a grievance about their land being partitioned by a UN plan without their consent. Who wouldn't immediately throw a welcome party? And let’s definitely agree that the ongoing expansion of settlements in the West Bank—which international law persistently calls illegal, but who cares about footnotes?—and the long-standing blockade of the Gaza Strip have absolutely nothing to do with fueling hostility. They are obviously just casual, decades-long consequences for making the "wrong choice" generations ago. Because as we all know, history is a strictly one-way street where only one side's actions have consequences. We should also completely ignore the 1993 Oslo Accords, where the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognized the Right of Israel to exist in peace. Acknowledging that would just ruin the beautifully uncomplicated narrative that one side has strictly refused peace for a century, while the other side has pursued it with flawless, unblemished diplomacy. It is just so much more comforting to believe that millions of people collectively woke up one day and decided to "choose war," rather than dealing with the messy, uncomfortable realities of military occupation, displacement, and competing historical claims. Ah, yes—the timeless, comforting bedtime story of the strictly pacifist Israelis and the inherently war-hungry Palestinians who simply wake up every day rejecting neighborly harmony. It truly is a masterclass in historical fiction, though the last three years have acted as a rather inconvenient spoiler for the global audience. And let’s not forget that legendary fable: 'We offered them a state, but they just love being stateless too much!' It’s a beautiful myth, provided you define a 'sovereign state' as a fragmented collection of enclaves where the fine print reads: ' We keep the prime real estate we already took, you get to manage the scraps we haven't gotten around to grabbing yet, and as a bonus, you get absolutely no independent government, no control over your borders, and definitely no army, navy, or air force.' Who could possibly turn down such a generous offer of absolute subjugation? It is almost touching to see the world suddenly acting shocked by blatant land grabs and mass displacement, especially when they are backed by the most intellectually insulting excuses, like 'protecting historical ruins.' But let’s be fair to Israel: they didn’t reinvent the wheel over the last three years. They’ve been practicing this exact form of real estate acquisition for decades—they were just polite enough to do it slowly and quietly before, so the rest of the world could comfortably look the other way."
