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which is doubly ironic, because the worst thing you could possibly do to avoid genocide is move all your people into one small place.
It's interesting to me how, just like many other settler groups like the Boer republics and the founders of Rhodesia, the early zionists managed to huff enough of the supremacist ideology that they thought trying to establish a small independent ethnostate surrounded by "hostile" neighbors would be feasible in the long run and not end badly. Doubly-so for the ones who convinced themselves that they could "resist imperialism" and get by without a superpower patron to shield them (all the nutters in Lehi and Irgun, Golda Meir initially), when that's practically the only reason Israel stands today. Must have been quite the sobering moment when they saw all the settler-states they modeled themselves after fall one by one.