Originally Posted by
Minoosh
They were refugees who saw forming a Jewish state as the only possible means forward. I don't think they were relying on God so much as on statements made by the British government. And some of them probably weren't against alternatives to Palestine.
Then Trump didn't kill it, did he? And Israel has removed some settlers, there's no inherent reason to believe it can't be done.
It only removed settlers because they were is tactically unsupportable locations, the strategically sound ones are never going anywhere. And there is a difference between forceably relocating 10,000 people from tactically unsound locations and 800,000. We are talking 13% of the total population after all.
But by right of conquest it is theirs and we need to stop this idea that you can't just take what you want.