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Not if you are the aggressor which is the position of the non-Zionist Hareidim. The Palestinians had no issues with Jews have a self-governing autonomous community, but did object when the Zionists demanded that they have political control and that the Palestinians would be ruled by Jews. Note that when Palestinians discuss the status quo ante they want restored, it is to 1914 not 1947. Note the discussion of the “three oaths” by the original Satmar Rebbe. The solution that might work would to allow the anti-zionist Hareidim the same status under Israeli law as Palestinians (limited civil rights in return from an exemption from military service), Also consider that persecution of Jews who have a halachic objection to the establishment of a secular medinah and who are refusing to fight for it, are “conscientious objectors” under international law and that persecuting them would be a public relations disaster for the zionists since what little support the medinah has among the goyim is largely religious in nature and will not look favorably on persecuting Jews for being too religious.