@rfpalestine@afalkhatib Any vision/realignment that doesn't fundamentally accept Jews as human, entitled to individual, collective & national rights; or that rejects any of the following corollaries; is mere porcine lipstick.
The illusion of hope might last for a time, but will inevitably collapse.
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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Yes, Israel has to fight hard enough & fast enough so the international community doesn't have time to react. A little less bragging on the part of the IDF would also be a welcome change
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW buying property there. Nor should you as a supposedly impartial outsider, support the implicit Arab Muslim supremacism of doing so.
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW Jews are Bnei Yisrael, sons of Israel; that's the classical Hebrew term for the Jewish national collective.
But a Palestinian national movement based on Islam cannot then claim that the Jews have no connection to the land, & demand they go back to Europe, or forbid them
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@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW to movement from outside the Mandate, we get some 40% of the Arab population immigrated from everywhere in the Middle East.
https://t.co/pnnRZuQQR8
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW It's a projection. The British didn't bother to record Arab immigration into Mandatory Palestine. But we can measure the movement within the Mandate from areas with little/no Jewish population to areas of high Jewish population, with salaries about 4x higher. Extrapolating
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@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW upon chose a non-indigenous name; not the indigenous people.
& you also have a hard time respecting the indigenous people, in your insistence on applying a name created by the rapacious imperialist Hashemites, instead of the ancient indigenous names Judea & Samaria.
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW There are no "people of Appalachia", even though it's a geographic region.
More, Arabs speaking Arabic & having an Arabic culture from the Arab peninsula cannot be said to be Palestinian based on a local name, leaving aside that the name was assigned by foreigners.
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW The Ottomans had a bunch of different, sometimes overlapping, names that changed over time.
https://t.co/K9n5es63u1
But in any case, the question isn't the name itself; it's whether that name could support a national identity. German has a word for the German national
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@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW Really? When did the car become not-mine?
In this analogy there is only one car, & some sort of timeshare agreement is on the table.
But why does the other car matter, even if it exists? It's still a violation of my property rights even if I have a million other cars.
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@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW colonialist identity; & now you want to claim indigineity based on that foreign colonialist identity.
But if you're going to conflate the Palestinian national identity with the Muslim identity, a) Islam says the land was given to the Jews, & b) Muslims have many countries in
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@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW a group of people doesn't have a national identity is the same as carrying out demonstrated intent to destroy that group of people. Bring out the thought police!
@JetQuarantine@SettlersFW Yes, Jews & Arabs from the geographic region known as Palestine; & only because the British Mandate used the European name. The Jews & Arabs had no shared identity, despite British fantasies of trying to create one.
But that's an incredible leap you're making: merely saying
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