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    1 year ago

    Ah, so you’re moving the goalposts from May 14th, 1948 to November 2nd, 1917?

    Admittedly, there seems to be fewer records of violence towards Jews in the region. Probably under a 1000 killed through violence throughout the 1800s. But there were oppressive laws set by the Ottoman regime - limiting land sales, requiring Jews to work in certain industries and forbidding them from others, etc. You know, apartheid.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s unfair to link the statement “there was less violence and hate towards Jews before Israel” with you know, actually checking dates before Israeli settlers started arriving.

      • steventhedev@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        So Israel began with Jewish settlers first arriving, the Balfour declaration, or Israeli Independence?

        Just so I don’t waste time for you sealions.

        • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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          1 year ago

          If you want to debate perv this, which group was there first and can lay claim to the land? Oh look, it’s Egyptian Arabs. Source. And before you debate perv me with context. It certainly wasn’t the Jews who were first, and you know it.

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            1 year ago

            I mean even your link says it wasn’t Egyptians first. That Egyptians settlers went to the area when an Egyptian pharaoh unified Egypt. But there people there before that.

            Which is why you have to pick a starting point and go from there. And if we are talking about forming a legitimized form Palestinian state, then starting at the partition plan is probably the most reasonable. Why? Because Israel exists and dissolving it and making the whole region Palestine is unreasonable and will not happen. It won’t. If you want peace, that is something you must accept.

            What needs to happen to settlers, what the exact borders will be, what happens to refugees, and people living on one side of the border but wishes to be a citizen of the other, all has to be discussed. But dissolving an entire country with nearly 10 million people is off the table. Not just because I think so, but because I’m the real world international legitimization matters. Israelis who have are multigenerational at this point will also not accept that and it won’t bring peace.

            • TokenBoomer@lemmy.worldOP
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              1 year ago

              And before you debate perv me with context. It certainly wasn’t the Jews who were first.

              Everything else is blather. Free Palestine.