Brief History of “Palestine”

Ugh. That piece was kind of bad.

And it's absolutely correct to describe Zionism as a "Western" concept.

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I’d like someone on the left to identify one single population on earth that did not take their current land from prior occupants.

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Bhutan

I have no idea whether that’s true, but I’ll take it

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Bhutan

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Tell that to the Boojikavarkarians.

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Through it all, Jews continued on the land

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Not really. There were fewer than 20k in the 1870s vs. 500k or so Muslims and Christians.

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At the time, according to Pierre van Paassen, the Arabs were thrilled with the Jewish presence in BMP. Energetic, European-educated Jews brought the benefits of modern agriculture techniques, modern medicine, and education to the downtrodden people in this backwater. Even the man who would become Faisal I bin Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi, the king of Syria, in 1920, announced that “We Arabs…look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement.”

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This is spin. The Palestinian proletariat were not thrilled at all. Also, Faisal I talked out of both sides of his mouth.

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Bhutan

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that reminds me, I need to fill up in case of emergency

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Aboriginals, Khmer (Cambodians), Amazigh (Moroccans), etc etc

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Where’s your proof?

Are these the only virtuous societies in your ridiculous and selectively naive worldview?