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Why the fuck does the colonial power dictate who “gets” land? The land was stolen from the local farmers and fishermen and given to Europeans.
by Gud 4mo ago
Why the fuck does the colonial power dictate who “gets” land?
The land was stolen from the local farmers and fishermen and given to Europeans.
- riazrizvi 4mo agoFor the same reason all land ownership across the world and across the ages and across all animal species has been determined.
- Gud 4mo agoSo you believe might makes right? I don’t.
- riazrizvi 4mo agoThe reality that a contested position is determined by whoever can assert the claim, isn't a moral choice, it's simply an observable political fact.
- Gud 4mo agoNo it isn’t. There are many plots of land belonging to people with limited military power. Iceland is a pretty good example. Palestine was stolen by Europeans with powerful backers, a statement you then agree with?
- riazrizvi 4mo agoIt's adorable that you think Iceland somehow maintains itself without power. In the 1976 Cod War with the UK, where we the UK asserted dominion over 200 miles of their water with our superior navy, Iceland countered with its superior position to surveil Soviet movements in the GUIK gap, and it leveraged that with a powerful alliance within NATO members to get the UK to back down. In WW2 Iceland's sovereignty was merely overridden. Britain took it over, because the Nazis had done the same in Denmark. We gave it back because the nature of our political, economic and diplomatic profile, compared to Nazism, made it advantageous for us to do so, all things considered.
- Sabinus 4mo ago>Why the fuck does the colonial power dictate who “gets” land? Because the preWW2 era was a very different time, the Ottoman Empire that previously held the region lost WW1, disintegrated, and the victors were entitled to manage the breakup and created many states. They thought it would be a good idea for the Jews to have a go at making a state, felt that they needed one to pursue self-determination considering their historical treatment, and had some very wishful ideas about how well the existing population would react or how partition would go. The British didn't evict Arabs to move Jews in. (Tenant farmer evictions and the associated legal land purchases aside.)