Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out?

• alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Devi@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.

    I mean... adequate to who?

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• blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At what point did the responsibility switch?

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  • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think they ever did, its always been their own fault.

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    • blazera@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Whose?

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      • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The people who live there. I thought that was pretty clear.

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      • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The people who live there. I thought that was pretty clear.

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