• takeda@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The land was changing hands for centuries: https://youtu.be/8tIdCsMufIY (and if we care about silly things about who was first, that would historically be Jews)

    In fact before the British, it was actually owned by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) which sided with the central powers in WW1. The British enrolled Palestinians and Jews to fight them and promised to give them that land in exchange for conquering it.

    Edit: I meant WW1

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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      6 months ago

      This history is about WWI, not WWII. The Ottomans didn’t exist in WWII and Turkey stayed neutral. The Ottomans allied with the Germans in WWI, but it wasn’t the Axis.

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      6 months ago

      surprisingly, there were people there even before the Jews. they are not some indigenous population that sprung from the soil.