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> Land acknowledgement statements are creeping into the US these days. What are the odds they make it to Israel?
by thaumasiotes 3y ago
> Land acknowledgement statements are creeping into the US these days.
What are the odds they make it to Israel?
- eli_gottlieb 3y agoYou want us to acknowledge whether we're on the traditional tribal lands of Dan, Binyamin, Menasseh, Yehudah, etc?
- Natsu 3y agoThey'd probably want to go back to the Canaanites.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago> Binyamin This one is really interesting. I note that you don't list the counterpart at all, but here's a selection from Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: > In Syria in the early second millennium BCE, Amorite-speaking people grew up knowing if they belonged to the Banu-Yamina ("sons of the right" or "sons of the south") or the Banu-Sim'al ("sons of the left" or "sons of the north"). Benjamin is the only name I know of to memorialize an ethnic conflict that was apparently won long, long ago, so long ago that most people with an active interest in the time period have no idea it existed. As far as your question goes, just the form of your answer is pretty good at reinforcing the point of my question.
- snapetom 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270596 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40270596.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoYou think it's off topic? What would be an example of a reason land acknowledgments are a bad idea in Israel that wouldn't also make them a bad idea somewhere else?
- dang 3y agoWe already had one flamewar going about Israel. I know it's annoying when these things get declared offtopic because of course they're connected by a sequence of associations—and you're right, it doesn't take that long of a sequence—but if you think about it from the overall topic of the thread, hopefully it makes more sense.