This is a thought that I have been tackling for quite a while now, but in the event of a country or region undergoing decolonialization, how should settler populations, especially multigenerational populations, be handled?
For example in the example of Israel, once the nation is reestablished as a one state Palestine, what would happen to the settler population? Especially those that aren’t living or participating in illegal settlements or exploitation?
This question is complicated farther by multiple generations of people who were born in a location and have no ties to any other country or location. Those people don’t have anywhere to go and can’t be “sent back” to where they came from as they have no ties. For example if a person’s grand parents immigrated decades ago to a country as settlers, and then their children and then grandchildren were born and lived their whole lives in a location, what would you do with those grandchildren? You can’t just throw them back to the country their grandparents were from. This question is made even harder when the generations start spanning back much farther.
Another problem that I am running into is that many solutions including “leftist” ones essentially boil down to ethnic cleaning even if they do not say it outright. Or they completely ignore the question or resort to some fantasy scenario where the settlers magically disappear or all agree to move.
So how should these populations and people be handled?
It wasn’t hard, we just had to kick anyone who had a fr*nch citizen as we didn’t even have citizenships, and ones who helped got to stay for instance Elaine Klein, I have no compassion for settlers or the so called sons of settlers, anyone who sits around while looking at my grandfather’s village get thrown in a hole and shot, while looking at 45 thousand Algerians get massacred in a week after being promised independence is as good as the one pulling the trigger, how can a human see their rulers commit atrocities on the daily and still associate with them, they had the opportunity to leave the land and go somewhere else, it was their choice to stay and enjoy the show, in fact later on pied noirs formed counter revolutionary terrorist groups. Algeria deporting them was a show of mercy nothing else, we didn’t deport them to the Solomon islands or the sea like they watched happen to us, we sent them to their overdeveloped country where they happily live and have nostalgia of making us work in wine fields.
Well said. The French got what they deserved and their colonization was outright evil. In countries where settlers are a majority, the prospect of something like Algeria does scare them, but I don’t think it’s as likely as settler-colonialism is more entrenched in N America. Anything could happen in a short span of time though.