Name one Arab-majority country where Jews live openly as equal citizens. The suggestion that “freeing Palestine from the river to the sea” would just mean a secular multi-ethnic state where Jews life peacefully among an Arab majority is willful blindness.
The logic of your argument implies that binationalism - a single state, belonging equally to both the Jewish and Palestinian nations - is an inherently genocidal position, and hence that proponents of binationalism are guilty of genocidal incitement.
However, there are Jewish Israeli intellectuals who promote binationalism - for example, the journalist Gideon Levy, and the academic Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin. By the logic of your argument, these Jewish intellectuals are guilty of inciting the genocide of their own people - which I think is a rather preposterous claim. Their critics argue that their plans, if ever actually implemented, would inevitably result in genocide in practice - they insist those critics are wrong. But, I don't think it really matters who is right. They don't intend genocide as a consequence of their proposals, so their proposals are not genocidal, whoever is right about what they'd lead to if put into practice. And nobody can really know the answer to that question, unless some day we actually try it.
But, if a binational one-state solution is not inherently genocidal - what makes a mononational one-state solution fundamentally different? In both cases, the claim of genocide is founded on what critics claim will be the practical results of the policy, not what the policy's proponents claim to expect as the outcome.
Some particular versions of a mononational one-state solution are genocidal, as are some proposed strategies to achieve one. But I'm not convinced the idea in itself (either in its Israeli or Palestinian version) necessarily is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Ottoman...
There were periods of peace, but they were also second class citizens and occasionally the victims of massacres.
My point was merely not to romanticise the past.
House to house, Arab mobs went, bursting into every room looking for hiding Jews. Religious books and scrolls were burned or torn to shreds. The defenseless Jews were variously beheaded, castrated, their breasts and fingers sliced off, and in some cases their eyes plucked from their sockets. Infant or adult, man or woman—it mattered not.
> Islam had been at war with the Jewish people since its defining inception in 627 when Mohammad exterminated the Jews of Mecca and launched the Islamic conquest that swept north and subsumed Syria-Palestina. For centuries, Jews and Christians in Arab lands were allowed to exist as dhimmis, second-class citizens with limited religious rights. These restrictions were enforced by the Turks who, until World War I, ruled the geographically undetermined region known as Palestine, which included Jerusalem.
Seems quite pre-“colonialization”, assuming we count the establishment of the current state Israel in the 20th century as the startng point for that.
I know it hard to feel calm when things like are happening, and everyone wants to blame someone else, but there’s a whole lot of shared responsibility in what’s happening right now.
I care about what’s happening to folk in Palestine a lot, but I also care about the Jews in Israel and what happens to them.
Those are not mutually exclusive things…