Deniz Opal
"Israel has to be called out, you can't just walk onto some land, start killing the indigenous population, forcing them to live in tiny pockets, while you make up a new country, set your own laws, and put up borders as if it's all yours and no one else can come in"
The USA:
Deniz Opal
@gfjacobs Biblically justified claim on land 🫣
In the same way slavery was justified by the curse of Ham?
The same way the Spanish inquisitions were justified?
You know what we call the period we allowed everything to be "Biblically justified"?
The dark ages.
GFJacobs Is Still Masking
@selzero meanwhile a Jewish claim on the land is biblically justified, to whatever extent one might believe that the Bible is literal truth.
Being thrown into a diaspora because of centuries of others determined to kill you and your people, and reclaiming land that was promised by God is a justification as powerful as you saying well, they were living there and that makes them indigenous, so by what right do you displace them?
In that context, your argument cannot stand, either.
GFJacobs Is Still Masking
@selzero they are as indigenous as any tribal, nomadic people.
There have never been a palestinian 'nation' or race.
I do not believe that justifies Israel murdering back, and i have been respectful and am making a reasoned argument, so please do not call me crazy.
Please be respectful back.
Deniz Opal
Erm.
No.
Palestinians are indigenous. 😬
Netanyahu is not indigenous to that area. He is Russian.
You are beginning to sound like the crazies that come on here claiming that Europeans were in North America before the native Americans.
GFJacobs Is Still Masking
@selzero not to mention that the people about whom you wrote that are NOT indigenous. They are Arabs whom the other arab countries MADE into refugees for 65 years after they tried to kill the state of Israel in its infancy.
Deniz Opal
@gfjacobs exactly the point of my post :)
GFJacobs Is Still Masking
@selzero um, just like early american settlers, followed by the US government?
How shall we change how America has treated indigenous tribes as illuminated by your statement?
Jeremy Jupiter Jones
I'm not really up for any great theological debate about the rights of Jews to a land inhabited for centuries by Palestinians, the descendents of Jews, Arabs, Africans, Romans and the many other ethnic/religious groups who make up the beautiful history of the holy land. Whatever you care to believe is your personal choice but regardless of how it is justified it does not now or never will make terminating another people and stealing their land ok. #NeverAgain
(((Jyrki Wahlstedt)))
@jeremy_pm @gfjacobs @selzero Hmm, Herzl lived about that time, but leaving God aside, Jews were living in the area for quite a long time, and e.g. in Jerusalem in 19th century they were the largest group (even Marx found that out). Zionism is a political formulation of the Passover sentence “Next year in Jerusalem”, so in reality it is older than 127 years.
Palestinians identify, as per PLO Charter, as Arabs, so they are colonisers, not indigenous (the names reveal something, the surnames disclose their origins). Digging there has revealed many Jewish artefacts, not many Arab. As it is, Arabs/Palestinians have even tried to destroy archeological evidence.
Talk about European settlers is a bit off the mark, because nowadays majority of Israeli Jews are not from European diaspora.
Jeremy Jupiter Jones
Isn't this God you speak of the very same God worshiped by all Abrahamic religions? Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Zionism is a 127 year old European ideology in response to European antisemitism.
The Palestinian's are genetically closer to the historic holy land than any of the European settlers.
Not forgetting neither Christianity or Islam existed at the time the Old Testament was created.
Simon Brooke
@gfjacobs @selzero this is ridiculous. Palestinians are not just indigenous, they are in general genetically more closely related to DNA recovered from classical period Jewish burials than modern Israelis are.
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