War is the only way that matters! Small consolation to the colonised and conquered. Do we not aim to hold ourselves to higher standards in the modern age? Imagine if our world leaders decided that the only thing that mattered is defending land through war!
BluesF
joined 2 years ago
I never intended to disagree with that, but my point was that just because the nation of Palestine didn't exist 500 years ago does not mean that the people who today we call the Palestinians hold no claim to the land.
And it certainly doesn't mean that Israel has a claim to it, does it? There was no State of Israel before 1948, either, what claim did they have to it?
Sorry who's home was conquered when? The British Empire might not have colonised Palestine but they did conquer it and allow settlers in with the intention of forming a state for the Jews.
Assembly is a scrapheap with every sort of technology imaginable but it's all broken. Could be an iron man suit, or you could just grab a length of rebar.
I'm not talking about the Gaza strip, I'm talking about the area that was once Mandatory Palestine. That land was conquered by the British during the fall of the Ottoman empire, and subsequently taken over to become (most of) what is now Israel and Palestine. Before the Mandate, you're right that Palestine as an idea didn't exist, but ther were still people there - most of them Arabs, as had been the case for a very long time before Britain invaded and allowed settlers in. Perhaps the Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine should have taken the "deal" offered them by the UN in 1947, but can you blame them? As far as they were concerned their home had been conquered by a colonial power, settlers had arrived from overseas, and now the UN wanted to slice Palestine in two and give half to the settlers! Since then, to the people who have been displaced, I imagine every new deal just seems like they're being hemmed further into a corner. I understand why they wouldn't accept, even though personally I agree that, at some point, they should have - much bloodshed would have been avoided.
I wish I could say I was surprised... I think there's a need for online spaces where bigotry is just absolutely not tolerated, but I'm not sure every space should become one.
Ginny Gout
Fuck yeah
Man I did not get this joke at all before reading this lmao
C&H is to sociology & psychology what XKCD is to science & technology.
I assume that people are reading this buny as in bunny but I can't help but hear buny as in puny in my head
Do you have an example? Just curious.
Personally I'd rather have crowd sourced bias than the bias of one really rich dude anyways.
If you go far enough back we're probably all entitled to the land. Let's just do away with these "borders" and make the whole world into a theme park instead.