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You seem confused and didn't seem to read the message you are replying to. I think the main point should be repeated to avoid the reading issues problem: >So w
by donkeybeer 8mo ago
You seem confused and didn't seem to read the message you are replying to. I think the main point should be repeated to avoid the reading issues problem:
>So we agree that the first move in this conflict was a 20th century European nationalist group setting up a new state by force in the middle of an inhabited nation? With the blessing of the colonial power in charge.
- yhavr 8mo agoI didn't want to spread the answer too much, bit if you're asking. > of an inhabited nation https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/nation https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/nation > a tribe of Native Americans or a group of Native American tribes that share the same history, traditions, or language They're not native americans. > a large area of land that is controlled by its _own_ government Mandatory Palestine was controlled by British. So it was not an inhabited nation, I guess.
- donkeybeer 8mo agoIt had someone living there, those someone's weren't asked and their land handed over to someone else. If we see it from the perspective of it having being a British colonial project, then it's even worse having gone from one colonial master to another without asking the natives.
- yhavr 8mo ago> and their land handed over to someone else Well, they were offered a partition plan, and instead of further negotiations chose to start a war. Multiple wars, in fact, and managed to fail all of them.