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Many countries exist today on land formally inhabited by other people. Isn't ongoing violence a sunk cost fallacy at some point?
What kind of time frame are we talking about for it to become "settled" (pun intended)?
We can argue about about how long you can squat someone's house before it's morally acceptable to keep living in it, and how much the crimes of the parents transfer to the children (if at all), and those are conversations that require some nuance.
However, specifically when it comes to Israel, you have to remember that the state was established within living memory. Many of the stolen houses were stolen by people living in them right now, and they're actively being stolen. You frame it as a completed and long past action done by our forefathers, but this isn't really accurate. It's an actively ongoing process, right?
No, no, I was purely going for the other way around. What happens to the Palestinians is definitely wrong, mainly because it keeps going on right now. But why stop there?
And then, if you continue this train is thought, everybody still wants a roof to put over their heads. "Go back to where you came from" isn't a solution either.