And yet, when the got power again themselves for the first time in millennia, they demonstrated they (the Israeli Jews) hadn't learned the lesson from their own history and chose to be the oppressors themselves.
How have they been oppressors. The Palestinians were allowed to vote, work and have a life in Isreal. They allow the right to elect Palestinians as political representatives and potentially be prime minister. From memory it was Palestinian polititians who ended up ousting an Isreali PM.
Palestinians can also work, have businesses and employ Isrealis. Isreal is a relativel free and democractic society. Most of the restrictions in place are the result of security measures because of extremist activity.
All democracies have their issues with multiculturalism and rights and I am not saying that the Isreali government has not been unfair and treated some people badly. But that doesn't mean they are an oppressive regime or an apartheid state no more than the wrongs the US, Canada, Britain and other western democracies have committed against minorities.
(Have you ever wondered why it is that liberal Jews are so prominent in supporting the Palestinian cause? Just think about it for a minute.)
I am not sure what you mean. The progressives in all nations seem to have a strange ideology about the Palestinian issue. They will always side with who they believe are the oppressed regardless of the facts.
Look at how many western polititians on the Left and other Leftist academics, students and corporations have either directly supported the Palestinians and Hamas or have not been willing to condemn them due to their ideological beliefs.
I mean its a strange relationship considering the Left is all for liberism and inclusion and Hamas is the direct opposite.
The rest of this is more of the analysis of "rights" to the land that comes down to "Jews wrote their claim down in a book" and "Palestinians aren't a real people". You even managed to get Arab autocrats to back the second part.
This is part of the problem that you seem to dismiss the Bible as not even having any insight into Jewish history and the land. That its just a myth, a claim some Jews wrote down in a book but having no basis in reality. Take this away and the Jews have nothing, no identity anymore than the Palestinians.
But when we do take the Book, the Bible seriously we find its a treasure map to Jewish history and culture which shows a long history of them being deprived of their land and culture but then coming back each time and maintaining that culture and connection with the land and leaves no doubt that the Jews have the right to exist in that land.
Why should the Jews give up what small slither of land they have and make it a completely different culture. Because that is what it comes down to. If the Palestinians are a nation then it is their culture that will be promoted including Islam as the dominate and only religion as all Muslim nations have done.
The Palestinians want all the land from the river to the sea. They don't want to share it with the Isrealis. But the Isrealis are willing to share the land if they are the dominant nation. The land is not big enough for two nations to exist in reality especially that they are fundementally different in important ways.
So we have to ask what sort of situation do we want in this area. Unless the Palestinians are willing to get rid of Hamas and the other radicals there will be no agreement with the Isrealis. But if they do then theres a chance for either the Palestinians to live in peace under an Isreali nation or even be in a position to create their own nation.
But whats at stake is more than just the Isreali and Palestine nations but what sort of nation do we want in that area another Iran or a democratic and free nation.