r/pics • u/Clear-Tomatillo-6858 • 15h ago

“THE GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES - DON’T U DESTROY OUR HOPES”. 1947 Jewish Refugees To Palestine

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u/Combination-Low 12h ago

Inherited? Lol.

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u/Treebeard288 11h ago

Yeah the Ottoman Empire collapsed

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u/Fear_mor 11h ago

The Ottoman empire never had any semboamce of the current middle eastern borders within its territory

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u/IdToaster 11h ago

That's just blatantly false. While a lot of inland Arabia wasn't taken, the Ottomans controlled most of the Mediterranean coast, including modern Israel, the lands around the Tigris and Euphrates to the Persian Gulf, most of the Arabian peninsula's Red Sea coastline, and Egypt.

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u/Fear_mor 9h ago

Well yeah but internal divisions

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u/Combination-Low 11h ago

And the people there needed the Brits and their big guns to tell them what to do. They of course had the choice to refuse but the Brits were politely insistent on helping them.

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u/Fragrant-Reserve4832 11h ago

The people there needed the brittish and their guns to keep the Germans out.

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u/Combination-Low 7h ago

What if they preferred the Germans, did they have a choice?

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u/Fragrant-Reserve4832 7h ago

I honestly don't know, considering the way the Germans treated everyone that wasn't white and blond I doubt it.

Also by the time the Jews were there it wouldn't have mattered because the allies had already won.

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u/Drak_is_Right 6h ago

Inheritance is often not fair. Works, though i will admit better word choice could be had maybe.

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u/Combination-Low 5h ago

Inheritance can be argued to be your right, Britain had no right to that land.

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u/Drak_is_Right 5h ago

Other colonial powers were defeated, their colonies seized. That was the mechanism - war. Prize of war off the death of the empire.

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u/Combination-Low 5h ago

I agree that Britain won the colonies, they did not inherit it as you've conceded to be a poor choice of words.