• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I wonder how far back you’d have to go in order to find the original incident that set off this enormous chain of retaliations. Probably at least 5,000 years.

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Bout 80 years actually. The current conflict is settler colonists fighting natives. The religious justification is just that, justification with no history support. Just classic colonization and ethnic cleansing of natives.

      • Snowflake@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Jewish settlers 80+ years ago bought their land legally. Meaning they legally own the land. Such classic colonization. Somehow after the ethnic cleansing they were left with 10x the population they started with. Seriously cleansed them didn’t they.

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          2 months ago

          bought the land legally doesn’t really mean much, the american settlers obtained their land ‘legally’ too.

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            2 months ago

            “buying land doesn’t really mean much.” Tell that to the Palestinians who got upset when Jews moved into the land they sold to them. One thing it definitely means is the new owners might move in.

            American settlers did obtain their land legally too. What’s your point? That to begin with, without us legally obtaining that land you wouldn’t have electricity. You wouldn’t have airplanes. You wouldn’t have a cell phone.

            • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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              That to begin with, without us legally obtaining that land you wouldn’t have electricity. You wouldn’t have airplanes. You wouldn’t have a cell phone.

              “Just look at all the capitalist treats you got out of our genocide, you ungrateful plebe”