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  • previously part of the Ottoman Empire, and long prior to that the Kingdom of Israel (around 1047-930 BCE)

    Yeah, if you look far enough back in history, nobody had autonomy or freedom, and amost everyone was subject to imperial tyranny of some kind. So what?

    One thing that’s very clear is that things said in the Bible don’t entitle anyone to take someone else’s home. It’s a holy book, not a title document.

    They’re a people who have lived in the area for thousands of years

    A small number did. Vastly more were part of the diaspora.

    I’m part of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. That doesn’t mean I can go to Dresden and kick some family out of their house because my ancestors lived in that area over a millennium ago. Such a claim would be seen as manifestly idiotic. And if it were two millennia, such a claim would be even more absurd.

    All our ancestors originated in Africa, shall we use that as an excuse to displace some modern African people?


  • Nation-states are the problem. They’re based on the belief that everyone with some common set of features (language, religion, etc) are somehow a uniform, undifferentiated whole, and anyone who doesn’t fit the template are to be excluded and disempowered. So you end up with an in-group either attemptiong to force-assimilate or exterminate everyone else. For example, the way the Castilians treat the Catalans, Basques, Galicians and others in Spain, or the way the Danes treat the Greenlanders, or the way the Han Chinese treat anyone who isn’t Han, or the way the Turks treated their Greek minority (now ethnically cleansed), their Kurdish minority (culturally suppressed and occasionally attacked), their former Armenian minority (subjected to genocide), etc, etc.

    And they’re most damaging in cases where mutiple ethnicities live alongside each others-- for example, the Serbs’ attempts to subjugate minorities under their control.

    There are few exceptions to this: one being Scotland, which generally constructs its national identity in an inclusive way.

    As for Israel, do your own analysis.