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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down3·7 months ago Give the land back to the indigenous people. That’s easy to say, but means nothing until you define who the “indigenous people” are, which is an extremely fraught topic in this particular case.
minus-squareguriinii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·7 months agoPeople indigenous to the land. It’s fairly simple. White European ashkanazi Jews whose descendants lived there 2000 years ago aren’t indigenous. They’re white, white people aren’t from the Middle East, Arabs are.
minus-squareTheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoMost Israelis are Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East.
That’s easy to say, but means nothing until you define who the “indigenous people” are, which is an extremely fraught topic in this particular case.
People indigenous to the land. It’s fairly simple. White European ashkanazi Jews whose descendants lived there 2000 years ago aren’t indigenous. They’re white, white people aren’t from the Middle East, Arabs are.
Most Israelis are Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East.