Reply #87: To answer your last question...

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"So if we take a modern day analogous situation:.....Suppose, tired of being refugees, 100,000 Palestinians managed to enter Israel today and turned up to claim their villages......According to your logic, there would be no great reason for the IDF to go to 'war' against the Arabs and expel them from Israel?."

That's not a good comparison, is it? Israel was already declared a Jewish homeland. There was no sovereign Palestine. It was only a part of the Ottoman Empire and then British Mandate.

Let's make this realistic.

If 250,000 Palestinian refugees legally immigrated into Israel, bought property and homes, sent some poor Jews off their recently purchased property, I can't imagine a significant amount of Israelis having any issue with this. Would you expect Jews to "resist" these Palestinians, assign some motivation to them (as though these refugees wish to take over the country by majority) and rightfully pick a fight with them?