But saying that Israel shouldn’t exist doesn’t mean that the Israelis have to leave
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Korne127@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The problem is that this argument can really be made both ways. If someone said Israel shouldn’t exist because Palestinians used to live there before that, that’s just essentially the same argument.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Okay hold on but what about the original Canaanites? Isn’t it their land?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They’ve all been dead for about two millennia
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The area has had a population for thousands of years. The original Canaanites are the people who were still living there in 1947 when would be Israelis invited themselves to that land.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I honestly have no idea who those people are
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The people the tribes of Israelites conquered to take ancient Israel.
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Neither argument hold any merit and is an example of the tyranny of history. Who cares what a bunch of dead assholes thought was theirs? The people who live there (not the politicians who pretend to represent their interests) are the only people that have any legitimate claim to authority on what should be done about the region.
uzay@infosec.pub 4 days ago
It is especially meritless to equate people who claim the land based on other people sharing their religion having lived there a thousand years ago, with people whose grandparents got kicked out of their houses and who’ve had to live in an open air prison ever since while being subjected to regular attempts at ethnic cleansing.
kerrypacker@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yep, maybe they could have a big fight, winner takes all.
uzay@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Israel shouldn’t exist because it’s a colonial apartheid state perpetrating a genocide. That doesn’t mean every non-palestinian has to leave either.