this user is a mod of a huge .world news community btw
So, then, let’s do the Americas next…
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According to jewish lore, aren't the Israelites originally from Egypt, and immigranted as refugees to what is now Palestine and Israel?
no but your curiosity is noble :) at the very basic, the jewish people emerged from the caananite population and egypt was a later thing i wish i could provide you resources to set you on the right track but i don’t see myself as smart enough and hope others can help out
As far as I know, Egypt was just a story from the Bible. There is no archaeological evidence of a Jewish population of size in Egypt.
And a badass one. A small group just peacefully walking/surviving, crushing the Military Superpower of its time with the help of God. Deus Ex Machina.
There are two main positions on the historicity of the Exodus in modern scholarship.[1] The majority position is that the biblical Exodus narrative has some historical basis, although there is little of historical fact in it.[e][5][11] The other position, often associated with the school of Biblical minimalism,[25][26] is that the biblical exodus traditions are the invention of the exilic and post-exilic Jewish community, with little to no historical basis.[27] Wikipedia
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I think a lot of groups would have similar problems if they kept track of their genealogy over 3,000 years. Maybe where people you were related to 150 generations ago lived should not dictate global policy.
I live next to Germany, who conquered my country not even a handful of generations ago.
Nobody blames the current Germans.
Exactly, this is why decolonization is a crazy solution.
Any solution needs to focus on where people are today. Focus on getting what they need.
with an important asterisk for reparations etc
i assume that’s what you meant by focus on getting what they need
Exactly. If you don't have a home, make sure they get one. If they don't have a job, get them connected to one. Make sure the children are going to school and that they get the healthcare and quality food they need.
Universal basic needs stuff.
Guy justifying White Colonialism with some fable about his race having a right to the land.
Every single colonialist movement that steals land fmro the natives and mass murders them has bullshit like this, all the way back to when the English stole the land from the natives and started calling themselves Americans.
Goes far further back than that. The Persian invasion of Turkey and the subsequent Greek invasion of Persia and Egypt comes to mind.
Roman conquests of the Mediterranean. The islamic conquest of North Africa, the Balkans and India.
Colonialism is not a new concept, it's conquest them staying to impose your culture on the locals and exploiting the local resources.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine also has colonialist objectives.
It makes perfect sense, if you don't think of Muslims as people.
I don't see why they need to not have Muslims there though. Ok, so this is where you wanna be, all good, but if someone else wants to be there too you kinda need to let them..I think that's where the problem is, it's not Israel, it's that Israel isn't sharing.
there are claims that the Arabs there were brought in from Egypt to work in the region in the 20th century, or something. In other words, they claim that Palestinians are actually Egyptian and from other neighboring states, and have only been living there for a century or so.
“i’m so sorry sir but your family has only lived in this household for checks notes 100 years and three generations. yeah so you are basically immigrants sorry, you understand why i have to bulldoze everything you own.”
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