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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Some did, but the whole point of Israel was a place for European countries to send their Jewish populations.

People who even if they were also ethnically Semitic, were descended from people who voluntarily left the area generations ago.

They could have immigrated there, instead European governments just declared it was theirs now.

Like, imagine if every American with Irish heritage were granted birthright citizenship there and the people who never left are shoved down into an ever shrinking slice of land. That's what's happening

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

were descended from people who voluntarily left the area generations ago

There have been forced deportations from that area for millenia. They're talked about in the Bible and the Romans did it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Weird then how the majority of Palestinians are a genetically unbroken set of lineages from before the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Some deportations from very specific areas happened, like from Jerusalem to the West Bank during Roman rule.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure the point you're trying to make..I was just pointing out that "voluntarily leaving what is now Israel" is wildly misleading and wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My point is you're incorrect. Jews have continuously lived in what is now Israel for 4000 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Where did I say anything about Jews not living there continuously? Idk what you're talking about now