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[-] bamboo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

You have to understand though, prior to the UN proposal, it was all just Palestine. Why should the Palestinians have accepted a UN (foreign, primarily western at the time) proposal to give half of their land to a minority who only began immigrating there en masse in the last 50 years? This was the period of decolonization, and while the rest of the Arab world and Africa was gaining their independence, Palestine was just getting a new map drawn on them by their western colonizers.

It’s easy to say with another 70 years of perspective that it didn’t work out for them, but in 1947 Israel was nothing more than an idea championed by a minority of religious extremists, viewed as terrorists even in the west.

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Prior to the UN proposal it was a British territory. Before that it was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Palestine has never existed as an independent state.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Correct. However it was never israels. Can we at least agree on that?

[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on how long you go back. It was Israel/Judea for over 1000 years before the Arab Conquest forced Jews to be scattered to the winds in the first place.

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