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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (19 children)

Which hardly matters when people are taking the homes of people living there currently and killing them. What difference does it make if some of someone's ancestors centuries ago lived in that general part of the world?

You could justify European colonialism in Africa under similar logic, on the grounds that since humans evolved there before spreading out to the rest of the world, all Europeans have ancestors that lived on that continent at some point in the past and would merely be "reclaiming" it.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Although wouldn't kicking the Jews out of Palestine be doing exactly the same thing all over again?

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yep. That's why I personally think it's dumb to try and argue for the dissolution of Israel at this point. It's too late. All you can do at this point is damage control and to try and find an equitable solution to the Israel-Palestine problem that gives both groups the ability to self-govern.

It'd be like kicking all the Russians out of former USSR countries, or Chinese out of Tibet, or white people out of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Israel should be held accountable for what they've done to the Palestinians, but I also don't think you can reasonably expect for everyone in Israel to pack up and leave at this point.

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