Who is exactly is making such claims?
Comment on So is Israel just going to finish Palestine off?
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 5 months ago
It will stop when they get everything from the nile to the euphrates river, also known as greater israel. The bible defines Israel as from the nile to the euphrates, they will not rest until they have “settled” the entire region
Aolley@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds like the CCP approach to twain with the "but a ‘kingdom’ in the past had this territory so we are entitled to it.
sparkle@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Even worse, because the Kingdom of Israel stopped existing 3000 years ago. Modern Israelis have zero connection to ancient Israel
SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Palestinians also have zero connection to the land. The Palestinian identity was artificially created around the same time as the modern Israeli identity with the intent to prevent the creation of a Jewish state. There was never a sovereign entity called Palestine at any point in history. Before the current states, there was the British mandate and before that the Ottoman Empire ruled the region for a few centuries. The Ottomans and the empires that preceded them had completely different divisions for this region. The modern borders are based on nothing historical.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Yeah but you understand the difference between the state and the people who lived there right? Like Jewish settlers came from Europe, to the place Palestinian people were and had been living in.
They have a connection to the state of Palestinian (inasmuch as it exists given differing degrees of recognition) by way of having moral rights to continue living on the land they live on regardless of what some lines on a map call it.