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2024-11-08 21:31:45
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Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: ≠ npub1lp34f…twl3w npub1zuyme…temqc ren :shraggot: there's simply no space for ...

(npub17rr…7wsy) npub1lp34ft9g29rwc22sgqr0wgyfjrp6hxrceuurf5c2n4s79c9zd93sutwl3w (npub1lp3…wl3w) npub1zuymekfza4cu7hfd50954dm9jyea9u4f6dnxz2c05z09t6fjkpfqntemqc (npub1zuy…emqc) ren :shraggot: (npub1qu9…wkf7) there's simply no space for land claims based on ethnicity and religion in a modern society.

There are so many contradictions and violations of international law in such claims that it hurts my brain just to recollect them.

I could theoretically convert to Judaism tomorrow, and be automatically entitled to a beach-front house in Gaza by kicking out a Palestinian family who has been living there for generations.

The fact that the law of return is even part of the Israeli corpus of laws makes Israel firmly incompatible with anything that resembles a democracy that enforces the rule of law.

And why stop with Israel then? There have been many more ethnic diasporas, even way more recent than Titus' siege of Jerusalem. How about Assyrians, Armenians or the Greeks who lived in Turkey until the 1920s? They all have their distinct culture, traditions, language, ethnic roots and territorial claims. Why not let them also take back their ancestral lands with the force? Or is an imaginary friend who promised you a land in a 3500-year-old book a legal precondition?

And the claims about racial purity or interbreeding are also very weak. The whole Mediterranean area is a genetic melting pot. All of us who were born there are a genetic mix that contains everything from the early Yamnaya nomadic tribes to the Spanish empire, passing through Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Arabs, Saxons, Normans, Ottomans and who knows who else. And the same applies to the Jews who mostly settled in Central and Eastern Europe after the diaspora: they're just mixed blood like anyone else in Europe. Trying to find the right "historic" place for every group is like digging through a huge basket of broken glass and trying to reconstruct the bottles and jars each fragment used to belong to.

Where someone was born, the culture in which they grew, the schools they went to, where they work, the language they speak and where they spent most of their lives matters much more when talking about "belonging" than sharing a drop of blood with some tribe who settled a particular piece of land 2500 years ago.

Btw, I'm not saying that the Israelis who colonized Palestine starting 100 years ago have to be kicked out. I mean, we should have never allowed them to return. It was, for a change, yet another huge colonial mess initiated by the British. But those who have been living there for several generations have probably gained their right of "belonging". Kicking out millions of Israelis would be just as cruel as kicking out millions of Palestinians. It's just that NO MORE settlers should be allowed, and the law of return must be scraped.

Palestinians have been there for centuries, and they have their right to be there, period. A two-State solution is literally the only possible way to get peace there. And it can't be achieved as long as terrorists are in power on both sides, using each other's existence as a justification for their existence and their totalitarian stance.
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