If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can’t Gazans?

Mass relocations solved conflicts? Is Gaza different?

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If the title of this article has evoked different emotions or if it has unleashed a range of thoughts in your head, then know that it wasn’t my creation. An interesting article with the same title was published in The Wall Street Journal a few days ago.

As the name suggests, the article draws comparison between the Trump-suggested relocation of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip and the mass migrations that took place across the subcontinent and other regions during the last century.

I’ve read this article and separated the main points for the readers. If you’d like to explore the full piece yourself, you can access it by . Just keep in mind that a Wall Street Journal subscription will be required to read it.

1. The article begins by accusing the world of applying “double standards” toward Israel. The author suggests that the world had no issues with large-scale population relocations — such as those between Pakistan and India, Greece and Turkey, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. But when it comes to the idea of relocating Palestinians, the same world reacts with scepticism and suspicion.