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Fran's avatar

A colonial mindset starting with Balfour gave the Zionists the land of Palestine. The Ottoman empire falls, so it's your's if you want it. People live there sure, but they are Arabs and they are use to living under colonial rule, since they are ethnically and culturally inferior to us white European folk, Liberation in this regard for the Arab world is a relatively new thing. I have no doubt that the people of Israel still maintain that position in regard to their neighbors and most definitely the Palestinians. So do most care about what is going on, or that the Palestinians are forced to go elsewhere, or that a genocide is taking place, hell no.

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karl pomeroy's avatar

I believe the Zionists were given only half the land of Palestine.

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Fran's avatar

Yes, and the most fertile part of it, but it also meant the displacement of the Palestinians since they resided on that land. It was their land, their country that was given over to the Jewish people by the UN in 1948. What followed was the slaughter and displacement of those Palestinians who had called that land home, and implemented by the new owners, the Zionists.

https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-the-palestinian-nakba-and-why-does-it-matter/a-65539735

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