If you think that Israel should belong to the Palestinians, not saying you are wrong. What do u think should happen to the almost 7 million Jews that live there? I’m not asking this as a condescending statement, it’s genuine curiosity.
Hi - I'm actually really glad you asked this question!
So it's a very very common misconception that the freedom of Palestine means something negative for Jewish individuals that reside there. This was a tool used in apartheid South Africa and Jim Crow-era USA. In both of those countries, the common propaganda was this: "If we integrate Black people into society, if we treat them as equals, then they're going to kill all of us White people!"
I, as a Palestinian, along with the majority of Palestinians, don't have an issue with the Jewish people remaining within Palestine. So, in short, they don't have to go anywhere. However, settlers who have taken over the homes of Palestinians (as is what happened to my ancestral home in Nablus) would probably need to move out and give the houses back to their rightful owners. But they wouldn't need to leave the country.
Israel is built on the idea that "Israel can only survive if we wipe Palestinians off the face of the earth!" That's why a lot of Israelis and Jewish people believe a free Palestine is a threat. Because they believe that the establishment of a State and extermination to be linked. They are not.
All the Jewish people there would be able to become Palestinian citizens living under Palestinian law. They would give back ancestral homes and lands that were taken by force, but there is a lot of land in Palestine, so they would be able to live and work and own property fairly and ethically within the country.
Palestinians have never had an issue with Jewish people. (Aside: some Zionists will tell you this isn't true because Palestinians call it the "Jewish Occupation" in Arabic, but Israel used to block newspapers and radios from Palestinians, so they didn't even know Zionism was a word until the late 80s/early 90s. The only word they had was Jewish). There are Arab Jews living in Palestine under the occupation, and they want the same thing: for Palestine to be a free and independent sovereign state. Because Arab Jews are also denied the "right of return" to Israel.
Give Palestine to the Palestinians. Allow them to be self determined, to establish a government and a stable ruling body, to give rights to the citizens of the country based on who is from the land and who lives there. Allow Palestine to exist as a country that people can live in and immigrate to, just like every country on Earth. It is not about kicking Jews out - it is about having the ability to control the land that has been ours for thousands of years, to establish a system of law and government, to be free.
Because this is the talking point that a lot of Zionists give: "well Jews are indigenous to the land!!" Okay well, yes and no.
More than 80% of Israel is European descent (even the people in the government - they change their names to sound more "Jewish"). As you can tell by the rates of skin cancer in Israel, they are NOT indigenous to the Middle East. So if they wanna negotiate with Poland or New York for a slice of land, that's well within their rights. Another large portion are African Jews from Ethiopia and other places - also not indigenous. And then we get to the small subset of Jewish people that are actually indigenous to the Middle East: those are Palestinians. Their religion does not change that. And yet they're the ones being treated like second class citizens.
Give the governing power and control to the people native to the land. The people who came don't have to leave, they just have to operate under new management.
(Last aside for this very long post - when the "war" started, a ton of dual-citizen Israelis fled back to where they came from. Most of them come to reap the benefits that are afforded to them at the cost of Palestinian oppression, and they can pick up and go back to London or New York or wherever whenever they want, but my grandparents can never go back to their village.)
