The fact that you see no rational or even moral issues in systematically expelling an entire people from the land they had inhabited for time immemorial just demonstrated your own level or moral bankruptcy. That is repugnant and vile act, no matter who commits it.
There was no "systematic expulsion". The expulsion was a one time event and it happened when the situation deteriorated to the war of "expel or be expelled". I do agree that any expulsion of that sort is disaster. But I also stipulate that the Jews tried to avoid this scenario all along and resorted to expulsion only when it became clear that the only alternative was their own expulsion.
You are also inaccurate when you say "expelling an entire people". First, because many Palestinian Arabs were not expelled and remained in Israel. Second, because the Palestinian people is a relatively recent formation. At that time the portion of Levantene Arabs who lived in what would become Israel were not "an entire people" of any kind. They have become a people with a distinct national identity as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
And finally, "time immemorial" is also very inaccurate. The Jews were not the only ones who migrated to Palestine. The Arabs were also coming in. In fact, during the 50 years of the Zionist immigration to Palestine, the Arab population of Palestine increased by approx. 3 folds -- from ~450,000 to 1.3 millions. So, 2/3 of the Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 did not live their longer than the Zionist Jews.
Have Muslims formed organizations with the sole, explicitly expressed purpose to purchase land and foster illegal immigration to France or Belgium, with the ultimate goal of building up a demographic majority and establishing an Islamic state? Have Muslims cooked up an entire political ideology claiming a long lost homeland in the Netherlands?
Let's leave the goals of political Islam aside. It is a different topic. I also don't want to speculate about what is going to happen in those areas of Europe where the Muslim immigrants eventually reach the demographic majority, purposefully or not.
My point is that your arguments of the right to resist uncontrolled immigration of "foreigners" who pose a demographic threat are very popular among the Western right. They looked as they were taken verbatim from their writings.
Regrading the question of the demographic threat itself, I'm not sure what is more real. The Muslim immigrants created multiple enclaves throughout Western Europe, mostly in major cities. In some of these enclaves they have become a dominant population, in others they make up a very large minority. The percentage of Muslims of the total European population is still low.
The Jews created a single enclave in the Arab Middle East, where they intended to create a demographic majority. They had no aspirations to the lands beyond the limits of that enclave. The territory of the enclave was very small compared to the total Arab Middle East. The percentage of the Jews out of the total Arab Middle Eastern population was also low. As I wrote in another post, even the devoted Arab nationalist Emir Faisal wrote that the Jewish aspirations were moderate and just.
Perhaps the reason people speak of illegal Israeli settlements and Arab refugees is because of the gross numerical asymmetry of it all - the '48 war resulted in the expulsion of 750,000 Arab civilians. On the other hand, there were fewer than 10,000 Jews in the entire proposed Arab state before 1948 (much of which ended up in Israel anyways). Today there are over 350,000 illegal settlers in the West Bank alone. I haven't seen any estimates of the number of Jews expelled from East Jerusalem (which, as I understand, was mostly comprised of the Arab dominated areas of the city anyways) - and even though the number was without a doubt a small fraction of the number of Palestinians expelled from Israeli territory, it was a war crime nonetheless.
Well, we were talking about the city of Jerusalem, but if you want to expand the area, no problem. Let's also take into account 900,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Arab and Muslim countries in the aftermath of the 1948 war. You may argue that Israel benefited from their arrival and that most of them were planning eventual immigration to Israel as good Zionists anyway. But they definitely did not plan to be expelled and having to flee leaving all their property behind. Was it a war crime? Are they entitled to the proper compensation?
I see. So according to you the British were the legitimate authority in the region when they agreed to create a Jewish state (something you yourself have argued in the past), but were illegal occupiers when they restricted Jewish immigration. What convenient logic!
When the British agreed to the idea of the Jewish homeland in 1918, it made things easier for the Jewish, at least temporarily. Beyond that, their agreement had no other significance.
Incorrect. This was not immigration and dispossession. The native peoples of the Middle East and North Africa were gradually Arabized after being ruled over by an Arabic-speaking elite (who were themselves, generally speaking, not originally from the Arabian peninsula) for centuries.
If you are interested in the question of forceful Arabization, you can ask the Kurds, the Berbers of Northern Africa, or the people of Darfur.
land with sporadic tribal settlements, and with no formal concept of nation-states,
It is actually a very good description of the Arab Middle East in the beg. 20th century.