Ironically, the beginning was then England left and divided the land between them. Then all the surrounding countries attacked the Jews and as they defended themselves, created the borders.
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PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 8 months agoI know it was difficult to move a bunch of ethnic Jews to Israel to begin with, but I don’t see why it would be any more or less difficult to move them away in some sort of gigantic humanitarian effort to give the land back to Palestine now. It is equally as ridiculous now as it would have been back then.
Why not as an international community just guarantee a spot anywhere on the planet effectively for people to move out of Israel and into a country of their choice and give the land back most importantly.
letsroll@kbin.social 8 months ago
darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Even if you did find a place to move them, the Israeli people don’t want to leave. The area they currently occupy is sacred to all three Abrahamic religions, which is a motivating factor for the conflict.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They can stay, they’d just not be the defacto rulers of the land anymore
Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That already happened once, and it is called Israel.
The core issue at the heart of all of this is that the generations of oppression and systemic genocide done to the Jews of Europe and the Middle East necessitated the establishment of a Jewish state. And barring any better options, it was decided at that time that the best candidate was the ancestral homeland of the Jews. There was just the small problem of people who were living there for generations after the Jews were kicked out.
You can probably find countries willing to take in Jewish refugees were Israel to dissolve, but no country on Earth is willing to cede land to enable the same degree of self-governance that Israel has today. Forcing another disapora and relegating the Jews back to being just a minority group scattered across dozens of countries is asking for the same conditions that led to all of the forced migrations, pogroms, and holocaust which necessitated the establishment of Israel as a sovereign state in the first place.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But that’s the thing. What does Palestinian apartheid have to do with any of it? It was thrusted upon them. Just doesn’t seem fair.