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THE TWO MOST STOLEN ITEMS IN THE WORLD: a pen labeled Surplus Value of Workers Labor, and a lighter labeled Indigenous Land

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Israel is just taking their land back

How on earth did you get to that conclusion

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yasser Arafat used to use a similar argument. It's a bad one regardless of who uses it, I think.

[–] Rediphile@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not saying I really agree with the position, but I'll explain what I think they meant for you. It was Jewish 'holy land' well before it was Christian or Islamic holy land seeing as Christianity and Islam weren't even made up until many hundreds of years later.