Comment by xg15
4 days ago
To be fair, there was no existing state, except the Ottoman empire which was defeated and dismantled in WWI. There was however an existing population who never got any say in what happened with their own land.
4 days ago
To be fair, there was no existing state, except the Ottoman empire which was defeated and dismantled in WWI. There was however an existing population who never got any say in what happened with their own land.
"there was no existing state, except for the existing state that there was". What?
Because the Ottoman empire was already long gone at the moment of the founding of Israel (and also Palestine had been a relatively small region within that empire, not a state on its own).
GP made it sound as if there had been an existing state in 1948.
(Not disputing however that the zionist project of establishing a state there and the entire conflict go back far longer than 1948, to a time where the Ottomans definitly were still there)
The state didn't magically disappear in 1920, it just went from being administered by the Ottoman sultan to being administered by the British (in Palestine, and other people in other places).
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