Lol I thought this was a Mormon meme at first
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I mean, I also think American Indians have a right to live and self govern in the Americas, and likewise have a right to defend themselves in that context. They just also don't have the right to bomb and push out all the white people who were born here too. We actually do have somewhat of a two state solution with some tribes in the US, it's just very inequal and there's massive systemic problems obviously. I'm not sure this meme is quite making the point you think it is?
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Very good point.
Settler colonial re(de)colonize colony USA!
Ask for Manhattan back in exchange for returning the blankets and beads
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"their ancestors"
The first Jews to move to Palestine were European Jews, they can't use the "our ancestors" card.
Dude, jews have been living in israel all throughout history. They've been forcefully expelled from the country by the various empires which have conquered it but there has always been a jewish presence in the land. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_and_Judaism_in_the_Land_of_Israel
Yes, there have been palestinians practicing judaism for a long time.
But that doesn't give europeans (and africans and asians and others), regardless of their religion, the right to steal the land and genocide the people.
In the olde days they called them crusades and they were garbage then too.
When you say steal land and genocide people, are you referring to the survivors from the Holocaust granted part of the british controlled land called (by the british BTW and not the indigenous people) Palestine? Those folks who we're then immediately set upon by the arabic folk living in said land?
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Over 80% of the population of Israel was born in Israel. If you want them to leave then you're talking about ethnic cleansing, not decolonization.
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