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0 pointsDiogenesKynikos8mo ago0 comments

Any comparison between the Palestinians and Nazi Germany is absurd. It's like comparing the Native Americans to the Nazis and asking, "Why didn't they just surrender to the European colonists? They chose to fight to the end, so it's their own fault."

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nailer7mo ago

but Arabs colonised the Levant from their native homeland in the Arabian Peninsula.

DiogenesKynikosOP7mo ago

The Arabs did not replace the native peoples of the Levant. The Palestinians turn out to be even more closely related to ancient Levantine people (including ancient Israelites) than most Israelis are. Levantine peoples started speaking Arabic, the same way that Jews in ancient times stopped speaking Hebrew (except in religious contexts) and adopted Aramaic as their native language.

Not that any of this matters. What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.

nailer7mo ago

> What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.

but it does. Jewish people have lived in the area for 3600 years, Arab Abs arrived 1600 years later, violently colonising the Middle East and North Africa Africa and violence in the name of Islam remains a global problem to this day.

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nailer7mo ago

but Arabs colonised the Levant from their native homeland in the Arabian Peninsula.

DiogenesKynikosOP7mo ago

Not that any of this matters. What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.

nailer7mo ago

> What happened in the 7th Century CE is not relevant to the question of who the native population was in 1900.

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