Comment by dagenleg
4 days ago
Well, Syria and Lebanon both hold some pretty serious resentment over the recent landgrabs. With the whole "acquiring buffer zone for the buffer zone" business in former and the population expulsions in the latter.
4 days ago
Well, Syria and Lebanon both hold some pretty serious resentment over the recent landgrabs. With the whole "acquiring buffer zone for the buffer zone" business in former and the population expulsions in the latter.
But they hated Israel before the recent land grab, right? And they seem less bothered by the much bigger Turkish land grab.
I answered your question, no need to move the goalposts. Countries usually don't like having their land occupied. As far as I know the Turkish occupation zone in Syria has been dissolved.
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The original formation was a land grab. Jews owned 6% of the land in Mandatory Palestine in 1947. The other 94% was ethnic cleansing.
> The other 94% was ethnic cleansing.
That's not really an accurate characterization of the situation as much of the land was uninhabited/unregistered and/or state owned. The Negev desert for example is a large percentage of the total land area and was effectively uninhabited and not privately owned. Land ownership records at the time were also not particularly clear and often there were disputed claims. Also Israel has about 20% Arab/Palestinian citizens so it's not like they ethnically cleansed everyone like Egypt/Jordan did with the Jews in Gaza and the West Bank when Israel gained independence.
But if that were the cause why do countries like Malaysia and Pakistan have diplomatic relations with let's say a country like Australia?
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