Comment on why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?
Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 months agoListening to a book now. Zionism started before WW1 when the territory was owned by the Ottomans. There have been individuals trying to get buy in to colonize the region forever
bouh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Antisemitism was already extreme at this time. It culminated in ww2, but it was already very pronounced a century earlier. Racism theories saw people like subhuman, but they also saw Jews like a different, grotesque kind of human.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t disagree, was this the reason for a Jewish homeland?
bouh@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Partly I think. I’m no expert. But after ww2 the US and USSR split the world between eachother, so with Israel the US had an opportunity for a vassal in this area. And politicaly the Jews being harassed everywhere through all of history made its case to give them a part of land.
I think that the area was a colony at the time, so it was easier for the west to give a land it doesn’t care much about.
The kurdes would like a solution like this these days I think. But given today’s context their chance is slim.