Nobody was proposing taking land from them though.
I mean just the Peel Commission on its own was abandoned because it would have required displacing a large number of Arabs. Palestine was 3% Jewish in 1917. You can see why a 20-80 split could be a problem.
Scepticism is a good thing but this information is just basic history and is freely available on Wikipedia and other sources.
I agree. My issue was with your original link. I mentioned the Balfour Declaration because it’s a pretty good starting point on Wikipedia that I had read myself.
memes on social media like the OP that present a totally made up version of history in order to promote a political agenda
To me, OP’s post reads as a political cartoon that captures sentiment at the current moment. Not to mention the part where Palestine wasn’t given/offered independent statehood during the creation of Israel, so in some ways that is true as well.
Also none of that really changes the fact that Palestine finally getting statehood when most of its land is lost and its people are victims of an ongoing genocide seems far too late. Whether the people who represented Palestine in the past shoulder some blame for not making concessions is an interesting conversation, but it doesn’t matter much for the message OP is conveying in my opinion.
But again, I’m no historian. I’m not even someone who has enough time to really research this and present a properly informed opinion. Just some random guy who thought your original link seemed pretty superficial and biased.
I mean just the Peel Commission on its own was abandoned because it would have required displacing a large number of Arabs. Palestine was 3% Jewish in 1917. You can see why a 20-80 split could be a problem.
I agree. My issue was with your original link. I mentioned the Balfour Declaration because it’s a pretty good starting point on Wikipedia that I had read myself.
To me, OP’s post reads as a political cartoon that captures sentiment at the current moment. Not to mention the part where Palestine wasn’t given/offered independent statehood during the creation of Israel, so in some ways that is true as well.
Also none of that really changes the fact that Palestine finally getting statehood when most of its land is lost and its people are victims of an ongoing genocide seems far too late. Whether the people who represented Palestine in the past shoulder some blame for not making concessions is an interesting conversation, but it doesn’t matter much for the message OP is conveying in my opinion.
But again, I’m no historian. I’m not even someone who has enough time to really research this and present a properly informed opinion. Just some random guy who thought your original link seemed pretty superficial and biased.