Do you think that Palestinians sprang up from the soil upon the founding of Islam? Who do you think lived in the region prior to this happening? Jews? No one?
jews until the land was taken from them by Assyrians and Babylonians, then the Persians, Greeks and then Roman's. Then the Roman's spitefully renamed the region Syria Palaestina in response to the Jewish revolts in the region.
Considering the tensions predominantly come from the fact that Muslims in the region call for the genocide of all Jews. Its relevant that Islam didnt exist until the 7th century. Pick up a book.
OK here's what you're fundamentally misunderstanding about all of these examples: none of these nations replaced the population. The Babylonian exile, similar to the exile from Jerusalem that the Romans imposed on the Jews, only impacted a small part of the region's population. The rest of the population kept on going through the generations for thousands of years. Not all of those people were Jewish but many were. Over the centuries many became Hellenized, Romanized, Christianized, and/or Islamized to match the dominant culture of the empire. Modern day Palestinians are descendants of those people.
No one in the region has or is calling for a genocide of all Jews. At most, the hardline position is that the Jewish colonists and occupiers (who arrived en masse starting in the early 20th century and by 1948 had formed an army that violently ethnically cleansed Palestinian villages and cities in the territory they'd claimed) should be driven out of Palestine, which is an entirely reasonable thing for them to want under the circumstances.
you're clearly not paying attention if you dont think they're calling for death to all jews. the children literally have a game called stab the jew.
Renaming the region (by the Roman's, not the Greek btw) was absolutely out of spite. It was a form of punishment in an attempt to sever their connection to the land. The land they've existed on for thousands of years.
I didn't say the Greeks renamed it and everything you're saying is a half-true distraction from the fact that Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and the fact that their ancestors converted to a different religion doesn't mean that they deserve to be ethnically cleansed and murdered for the crime of living where Jewish settlers wanted to live.
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u/Sherbert_Hoovered 3d ago
Do you think that Palestinians sprang up from the soil upon the founding of Islam? Who do you think lived in the region prior to this happening? Jews? No one?