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    -11 year ago

    It is not. The fact you call it a disgusting reversal of facts is a disgusting reversal of facts.

    And decolonize Palestine is idiotic too, the Palestinian Arabs are colonizers as well.

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      21 year ago

      You can find an academic account on the 1947-48 war here https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537591 .

      I dont know how the arabs in palestine are to be seen as colonizers given that the notion of “palestine” came around the turn of the century but frankly I’m not interested in such mental gymnastics.

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        -11 year ago

        Most of the Palestinians moved to the area following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1.

        And the region has seen mass migrations of people for millenia as it has changed hands between the Ottoman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Persian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonians, and plenty of others in between.

        Everyone who lives there is a colonizer at some point in the last few hundred years.

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          11 year ago

          Well thanks for sharing I suppose. Its rare to see a definition of colonialism this dumb and a lie so brazen.

          • @[email protected]
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            -11 year ago

            The Palestinians took the lands from previous peoples. Sounds like colonization to me.

            Either everyone currently in the Palestine area is a colonizer, or no one is.

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              11 year ago

              I mean I probably shouldnt bother but here is some reading material on US colonialism in case you want to see what people actually mean by colonization (it’s not immigration)

              https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

              do with it what you will. There is a text at the very end comparing Zionism and US Settlerism.