Nevertheless the focus will be on the Palestinian “state” being stolen by the Jews. The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it.
Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads? If that’s the case then their homeland was defined by the last place their camel took a shit a…
Nevertheless the focus will be on the Palestinian “state” being stolen by the Jews. The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it.
Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads? If that’s the case then their homeland was defined by the last place their camel took a shit and evaporated the moment they left. If you choose more recent epochs, when boundaries were drawn by map makers often employed by nation states far removed geographically, the boundaries have proven only a bit less temporary.
That fundamental fact has proven far more permanent, the only difference is that todays cartographers are being employed by Iran, the apparent BFF of both Biden and Obama.
"The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it."
Actually that's the easiest thing -- the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps.
"Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads?"
Some of them. OTOH some of them founded the earliest cities which spawned some of the most important early civilizations. The Phoenicians for example. It was the ancestral Hebrews who where the nomadic shepherds in the mountains.
“ the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps”
And what makes that “border” any more legitimate than those that preceded it?
Borders, internationally “agreed” to or not, as well as countried have been appearing and disappearing since the concept first emerged. It seems to me that Palestines borders have less legitimacy than many others who have vanished before it.
Sure, history is messy. But law is all we've got. BTW, the withdrawal would only be the first step -- Israel would then start *purchase* negotiations -- what she wants, she *pays for* rather than steals. Radical, I know.
“Palestine is fake”
Nevertheless the focus will be on the Palestinian “state” being stolen by the Jews. The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it.
Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads? If that’s the case then their homeland was defined by the last place their camel took a shit and evaporated the moment they left. If you choose more recent epochs, when boundaries were drawn by map makers often employed by nation states far removed geographically, the boundaries have proven only a bit less temporary.
That fundamental fact has proven far more permanent, the only difference is that todays cartographers are being employed by Iran, the apparent BFF of both Biden and Obama.
"The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it."
Actually that's the easiest thing -- the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps.
"Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads?"
Some of them. OTOH some of them founded the earliest cities which spawned some of the most important early civilizations. The Phoenicians for example. It was the ancestral Hebrews who where the nomadic shepherds in the mountains.
“ the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps”
And what makes that “border” any more legitimate than those that preceded it?
Borders, internationally “agreed” to or not, as well as countried have been appearing and disappearing since the concept first emerged. It seems to me that Palestines borders have less legitimacy than many others who have vanished before it.
Sure, history is messy. But law is all we've got. BTW, the withdrawal would only be the first step -- Israel would then start *purchase* negotiations -- what she wants, she *pays for* rather than steals. Radical, I know.