At what point did the responsibility switch?
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Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months agoTheyve been fighting for more than 70 years. Its fun to blame Europeans, but its not their fault.
blazera@kbin.social 8 months ago
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t think they ever did, its always been their own fault.
blazera@kbin.social 8 months ago
Whose?
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The people who live there. I thought that was pretty clear.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The people who live there. I thought that was pretty clear.
alvvayson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It actually started with WW1 when Britain promised both Jews and Palestinians their own state if they overthrew the Ottomans.
Before that, Ottoman rule was oppressive to both groups relatively equally for a few hundred years.
WW2 and the whole holocaust thing just turned it from a small problem into a big problem, as millions of European Jews sought a safe haven outside of Europe, leading to the creation of a religious ethnostate in 1948.
So yeah, Europeans definitely are to blame, but Arabs and Palestinians aren’t innocent either. They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.
Devi@kbin.social 8 months ago
I mean... adequate to who?