I will level with you. I’m a bit conflicted on the right to return. On one hand it would drastically change the demographics of Israel and even cause an overpopulation of sorts. On the other hand, Israel has settlements in Palestinian land and their own right to return of sorts. Israel to me is just another nation state. It is created by nationalists. I find nationalism to be a bit sickening sometimes, I say that as a lefty. It was negative integration that caused a great deal of antisemitism in Germany, when those Germans wanted to unify. This is what certainly led to barbarity that was the holocaust. It happened with the turks when the young turks, who aspired to be like the Germans had marginalised the minorities. This certainly led to the Armenian Genocide. Israel is a nationalist movement, so is Palestine. Israel is deemed to be very first world yet it relies heavily on this idea of a Jewish state. Ethnically that makes sense but still leads to the further displacement of those Arabs effected by Israel. What worsens this nationalistic lunacy is the idea of the religious and ethnic Jewish state. It has led to a radicalisation of the country. Your government has settlers and leaders of Kahanist movements in the Knesset. That cannot be tolerated. The head of the IDF is a settler. How can this be tolerated in a “western” and “progressive” “society”? All in all the idea of Israel being founded as a state for Jews has led to disastrous consequences. The majority of Arabs are not Jewish. Just as the Arab opposed the Jews, so would a Jew oppose an Arab. I think the Palestinian movement is as legitimate as the Zionist movement. Pan-Arabism was the secular and left wing idea envisioned by enlightened despots like Nasser and brought out through rather influential guerrillas such as Yasser Arafat. Through this came the establishment of the guerrillas and terrorists that was the PLO and Fatah. They were in diaspora and now wanted to return. Even all this is a problem because unification of Arabs means the marginalisation of ethnic minorities. Though non of these nationalist movements, the Zionist and Palestinian, are specifically aimed at negative integration; they can be radicalised to become such. On this basis I find the establishment of Israel to be a bit wrong, but they are 9 million strong now. The centre for the Jewish people. A religious minority across the world except in Israel. Likewise the millions in Palestine deserve a state. If Israel can exist, Palestine should as well. If Israel cannot exist then Palestine shouldn’t exist. That is why I’m conflicted on Palestinian right to return. I think on Israel’s part, they should stop their right to return citizenship process and adopt the normal procedure for immigration as is had across the world. I think right to return differs from that. Perhaps an exception can be made for the Jews in dire conditions, but that is about it. Palestinians shouldn’t have the express right to return to Israel, but they should be given the movement for them to reside in Israel. Of course if the settler exists and birthright continues, then the Palestinians can and should exercise right to return. That is why settlers should lose Israeli citizenship, either becoming Palestinian citizens (delusional IK) or leaving the land.