• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Nobody forced them to move to Israel after World War 2. Nobody would force them in a more ethical project either. “Carving” a nation out of people who didn’t fuck around and had already been there 4,000 years certainly wasn’t the answer.

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      4 days ago

      Modern day Palestinians are not the coastal Philistines of the middle bronze age. They’re the descendants of the Arab colonizers of the 7th and 12th centuries.

      Which, for clarity’s sake, does not deny them of a right to their land.

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        4 days ago

        Those people are absolutely still there. The Arabs took anyone willing to convert to Islam.