Lol... Their ancestors only lived there after they ethnically cleansed the people who were already living there. They've been doing this crap for a long time.
Edit: to clarify, I'm talking about the Jewish people of Israel
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2024
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When you say "they," are you referring to all humans throughout all of human history? Not conquering/displacing people is a much more recent international norm
More of a recent virtue signal we've been propagandized to believe, while continuing the conquering and displacement without skipping a beat.
While the west was writing the UN declaration of human rights, they were hard at work creating the state of Israel, directly denying Palestine their right to democracy and displacing a million of them.
At the end of WW2 America, and the rest of the anglo-allies, assisted France in trying to reclaim their colonies, rejecting hundreds of millions their "basic human right" to democracy; all of this went on for decades after the declaration was ratified, as if that meant anything.
Human rights don't apply as long as you are labelled a communist, terrorist, separatist, extremist, pedo, etc, etc. Then they can torture you in a black site all nice and legal.
Most of our history has been written by sociopathic criminals.
If you look at the entirety of human history, genocides and displacements have objectively been at an all-time low since the end of WWII
if you look at the entirety of human history, since WWII is a blink of an eye
fight complacency.
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According to the Bible, yes. Which is most likely not true. Remember that Zionism started as a secular movement, with religious people getting more (very) on board relatively recently
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This is according to their own religious texts which can be found in the Bible as well. A religion of genocide that instructed on brutal racial slavery.
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Zionism is inherently racist. This movement has nothing to do with Judaism. One of the greatest misdeeds of the Netanyahu regime - tho it pales in comparison to their other misdeeds - is to present their inhumane actions as the Jews' point of view. Israel's strategy in the last couple of year was to portray all completely justified criticism of Zionism, and especially of the state of Israel's inhumane approach to its realization, as anti-Semitism. There is no truth in this whatsoever. Zionism is not Judaism and the state of Israel does not stand for the Jews as a religious group - these days Israel only stands for a criminal regime that murders helpless people and breaks international law. This is not about religion, but about crimes against humanity committed by a sovereign state, by Israel, their criminal regime and all their henchmen.
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A unified and stable middle east would be and would have been a global superpower with the ability to influence independent control over major global trade routes and energy supply.
This is why the Israel is and has been imperative to U.S. foreign policy.
Money, guns and oil baaaabbbbyyy. Everything else is propaganda and distractions
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No. The real reason is to keep an ally in the very Muslim middle east and because they believe that it's a prerequisite for the rapture.
At this point, I don't think anyone involved believes in a loving God, or even a God that will punish sinners. Neither of them would want this.
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Linus Torvalds - ban Israel developers from linux
Oh, shit, the Mossad would absolutely do that, huh
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The jewish people have never wholly owned that area. Persians, Arabs, and many other races have also always lived there. It’s literally in the bible.
Also remember that the bronze age Jews were not at all special among the tribes of the area, their story about themselves is aggrandizing fiction that all the tribes did, it's just the Jews' stories survived and became popular
Also bronze age. Those that left left so long ago, the only right they have to the place is military might and the legal right given based on lobbying and the racism of the law makers in question.
Iron age, the Hebrew age of myth was set during the bronze age and in the immediate period of the bronze age collapse. Moses was bronze age, david was post bronze age collapse, the first diaspora was during the early Iron age, and the second diaspora was during antiquity.
Sorry if im being anal about it but one of the few good things about the old testament is that it tracks the evolution from bronze to iron pretty well, also Cyrus the great works as a solid historical reference point. But yeah there was about 700 years between the end of the bronze age and the end of the first diaspora, and about a thousand years to the second diaspora. For reference the Roman empire still existed seven hundred years ago.
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"their ancestors"
The first Jews to move to Palestine were European Jews, they can't use the "our ancestors" card.
Dude, jews have been living in israel all throughout history. They've been forcefully expelled from the country by the various empires which have conquered it but there has always been a jewish presence in the land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_Land_of_Israel
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I don't understand. They're talking about Biblical era ancestors
DNA tests show that their ancestors mostly have the same markers found in southern Italian or Sicilian populations.
If a Japanese converts to Judaism, can they claim that their ancestors used to live in Israel? Well, the same logic applies to the European Jews that moved to Israel. They then convinced Jews that are actual descendants of the Levant populations to move to Israel with them, but the first settlers didn't have Israeli ancestors, or didn't have more of them than any other Joe Schmo from Southern Italy
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Very good point.
Settler colonial re(de)colonize colony USA!
Ask for Manhattan back in exchange for returning the blankets and beads
Out of the kindness of my heart I will be donating smallpox blankets to the NYPD even if they don't return Manhattan
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Don't I deserve to seize my childhood home, or the one I sold last week? no anti-semitic replies please.
It’s the same bs Russia uses to validate their invasion and theft of land like Crimea
Common hamid W
Fuck Israel and America
Not really, it's just a thinly veiled excuse so that any criticism of our current neocolonialist policies can be treated and swept up under the rug just like centuries before, except the rug is painted in the color of supposed religious intolerance (oh shit, guess I still can't be atheist in the 21st century).
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