The Double Nakba

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24. Interestingly, Greece and Turkey did agree on a population exchange, which is an argument in your

favor.

However, IMHO it's still not OK to remove people from their homes and tell them that they or their descendants can never come back. It doesn't matter if governments agree to it - it's still wrong.

You brought up Syria as an example, and I think that we'll see that some of the Syrian refugees won't be allowed back - simply because they're from the wrong ethnic group, and their land was taken by another ethnic group. When an ethnic group is removed from an area, the ethnic group that did the removing is always trying to prevent that group from returning. It happened in Israel, and it will happen in Syria too. The arguments against their return will be exactly the same as those Israel use against the return of displaced Palestinians, and the arguments supporting their return will be exactly the same as those in favor of giving the Palestinians the right to return to their ancestral homeland.