Russ G
2 min readNov 12, 2023

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The violence comes because Arabs in Palestine hated Jews and Christians and everyone who wasn’t a Muslim Arab.

Again, it was NOT all their land. They owned portions, but honestly not all that much.

After 1919 there was no country that owned the land in Palestine. The British controlled it via a League of Nations Mandate and that mandate required them to decolonize the region and set it up for self government.

Palestine was not an Ottoman province, it was part of Syria and the name had history from Roman times, but it’s like calling the Czech Republic “Bohemia” in modern times.

Yes, the name had meaning but it wasn’t in official use under the Ottomans. You can find maps for “New England” too but you won’t find a government or laws of that region of America, and if the American government fell and 30 years later the people there started to insist they were “New Englanders” vs Americans, or residents of the actual states in that region people would naturally take issue with it.

The Jews had no agenda to remove Arabs from their own land.

The Arabs were xenophobic and violent and refused to accept anyone else living there, as they are today in places like Darfur where they’re currently perpetrating (another) genocide. That’s where the violence came from.

Characterizing this issue as “Buying land and inviting all your friends” is also a deeply ignorant and even bigoted statement that further shows your complete lack of knowledge or understanding of this history.

None of this is like, a secret. You can Google any part of this or read a history book and find this information. You seem to have been taught a very curated and limited narrative that omits key facts.

It’s interesting how you’re accusing me of being brainswashed as I list historical facts that disagree with what you seem to believe without citing any evidence.

You’re not acknowledging the utterly insane claims you made that Tel Aviv is built on places many kilometers away either.

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Russ G
Russ G

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Autodidact on most topics. Just doing the best I can to figure stuff out.

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