• chitak166@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Considering how the Arab world at large never agreed with the terms of Israel’s conquest, this makes sense.

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      10 months ago

      In the 40s and 50s they all agreed on kicking those same Jews out of their counties, though.

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      10 months ago

      The Israelis themselves know it but deny it. I am confident that one day sooner or later, Palestine will be liberated like Ireland, Algeria and South Africa before it.

      “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.” — David Ben Gurion. Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

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      10 months ago

      Pretty sure jews around the world never agree with the war that was brought to them the moment country was formed.

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          10 months ago

          So was the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

          They’re not going anywhere, and the people who call for the abolition of those countries are nutcases and will always be accurately understood as nutcases.

          Pakistan and India were formed just like Israel was: according to international law and by partition.

          If the Palestinians want a state, they can have one: alongside Israel. Those are the terms. And until they accept that, they will suffer. Sucks for them.

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            10 months ago

            Pakistan and India wasn’t the same. it was single nation split in two. the people in it is native. Israel is nonexistent before 1948 and the people were brought from outside. as south African kick out theirs oppressors, Palestinian will do the same. israel is no different than nazi, instead israel are worst.

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              10 months ago

              the people in it is native.

              Some were, some weren’t. Depends how far back you want to go, which wave of mass migration you’re talking about.

              Israel is nonexistent before 1948 and the people were brought from outside

              Except, of course, that none of this is correct.

              First, there’s the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The Jews are the same people.

              Second, Jews maintained a continuous presence in the land of Israel-Palestine ever since then. They are, therefore, indigenous to the land.

              Third, the majority of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahis – Jews from Arab lands who’ve lived there since the Second Temple Period (516 BC - 70 AD), who were forced to flee from these neighbouring Muslim states due to violence, pogroms, repression and the theft of their property.

              We know from numerous scientific studies of Jewish and Palestinian DNA that they’re almost identical, and share a common root, most likely both being descendents of the ancient Canaanites. Here’s a very recent one. There’s almost no genetic difference with ‘European’ Ashkenazi Jews either, because they very rarely intermarried with other faith/ethnic groups. Here’s another from 2015 in Haaretz.

              Palestinians and Jews are basically cousins, genetically speaking, and both are indigenous to the land. Palestinians perceive it as an invasion, and that’s understandable despite not being true. To the Jews, they were returning from exile to their homeland only to find that there were squatters who’d let the place fall to ruin while they were gone, which is also understandable though not true.

              They’ll find a way to live together one day, but it’ll require both sides to accept the rights of the other.