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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Or and this is nuts, but the Ottoman Empire was building up the area and urbanization was happening. Nobody got replaced, it was just more people moving in.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

those are synonyms, or are we all pretending gentrification doesn't exist again?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh no, they built more housing and improved the economy! The horror!

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 months ago
[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

No. Not exactly. The Israelis have spent decades pushing Palestinians out. They aren't just moving in.

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

i'm not arguing against that, I just don't buy that Palestinians are natives. Ottomans in the region were subject to mass migration following the British mandate.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

But the British did it too is a woefully bad argument.

[-] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 months ago

So you're arguing what exactly?

That since they both came in an oppressed the local Arabs of the 1830s (who are in no way ever included in the definition of Palestian?) and took their land that but migration continued so the Israeli pushing of Palestinians off of the land is just a continuation of what both sides did to the definitely never Palestinian Arabs who were there earlier and so it isn't wrong?

this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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