Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Vox"
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chained2it Im still in 1919, the start of the current conflict.
Note here, that at ANY particular point in time, nobody can foresee the future.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian%27s_fallacy
Therefore, the people who lived in 1919 ONLY had the world around them to make judgements.
Correct?
So, what did they see?
Correct.
Colonialism.
White people cutting off the hands of child laborers in the Kongo, Hawaii (an independent Kingdom) being annexed, Native Americans stuffed into dusty desert reservations, Moro Massacres if "naughty natives" refused to pay taxes, chased into to the desert to die of thirst (Herero) or starve (India) , children stuck into concentration camps (Boer War), etc.
THAT is what influenced opinions back then, and why local inhabitants did not WANT whites to rule them.
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Against the common held belief, the "Muslims" did not steal the land from Jews.
That is a popular myth, spread by the propaganda machine of Israel, and by Zionists.
The reality is that the Jews were chased out of their holy land in 3 waves, the last wave by Italians (Romans) about 2000 years ago. For more than a 1,000 years, Christian invaders (Byzantine Empire) captured the Levant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
The Ottoman Empire defeated the Byzantine Empire, and then dominated the region for around 500 years, until they were in turn defeated during WW1.
Therefore, the erroneous belief that "Muslims" stole the land is incorrect.
During the reign of the Ottomans, the population stayed more or less the same, but many converted to Islam because it had obvious advantages (taxation, business, etc.).
The Muslims did not "steal" anything.
They are for the most part the descendants of people who had lived there for generations.
For most of history, the rulers were foreigners (upper classes), but the local population (the simple people) remained more or less the same people (Semites). Of course, there was some immigration, meaning that the Levant, like the Lebanon, had always been a region of mixed ethnicity, religions, and cultures.
Here you can see a graph of the demographics of the Levant for the last 2000 years or so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine_(region)
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