I've been watching the videos shared here, and it has been quite transformative. I grew up in a Jewish community here in Brazil, and basically, the only narrative I heard throughout my childhood and adolescence was the traditional Zionist one. The exercise of investigating self-bias and self-deception has been special.
Especially on the topic of whether or not it is an ethnic cleansing project, I found those two texts, and I’m curious about what you all think of these counterpoints. The first is from an Israeli soldier, and the second is from a left-wing Zionist (so I'm aware of bias risk):
https://adin1664.medium.com/there-was-no-zionist-ethnic-cleansing-plan-in-1948-320b53aeb856
https://x.com/Fathom_Editor/status/1800529146759782760
It seems to me that Zionists are very insistent on making these theoretical distinctions between apartheid, colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. And that makes sense to me, but I know that, in general, these distinctions have been used to hide atrocities, ignore Palestinian suffering, and deny its direct connection to terrorism against Israel. What has been revealed to me so far is that it is much more of an unconscious ethnic cleansing project carried out by Jews who were desperate for security than a consciously designed plan to expel Arabs. What do you guys think after reading both texts?
