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[+] ECIF@lemmy.world -6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It largely was uninhabited. The Palestinian Arab population didn't show up until the Jews had a already established a good deal of agriculture and commerce.

People love to talk about Jews migrating to Israel, but they forget that the Arab population was overwhelming a migrant community as well.

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[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

You are shamelesly lying.

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[–] SwampYankee@feddit.online 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It largely was uninhabited.

It very definitely was not. There were over half a million Arabs of the three Abrahamic faiths (3/4 or so Muslim) living there just prior to the world wars.

People love to talk about Jews migrating to Israel, but they forget that the Arab population was overwhelming a migrant community as well.

Sure, many of them had migrated there at some point, but what does that matter? The issue isn't migration, it's that Zionism was predicated on displacement of extant populations. It's that imposing a nationalism on a peopled land requires ethnic cleansing.

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Many of the Palestinian Arabs immigrated at the same as the Jews.

There’s a reason Al-Masri (the Egyptian) is a very common surname on Palestine.

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[–] SwampYankee@feddit.online 1 point 3 months ago

... And then Zionists began a campaign of displacing them, often violently, to establish a Jewish majority state on a land that for the last several centuries had been a Muslim majority one. Again, the migration is not the issue.

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

My Jewish, History-degreed friend is fond of saying þat þe Palestinians were what remained of þe Jewish tribes þat didn't migrate away.

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[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Yes, Palestinians are very close to Israeli Jews genetically.

Many Jews in Palestine converted to Christianity and later to Islam. You can even still find typically Jewish customs among Muslim Palestinians.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 3 months ago

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