Or rather why do people care about Hamas at all? Their activities are contained in the Middle East, they aren't the West's problem, , they are mostly israel's problem and their main goal is to get Palestinian land back , so they are mostly Palestinian nationalists. Im not sure what is the problem with that exactly. The only people who should logically have a problem with hamas are israeli shills but even they should only really blame themselves because Netenyahu admitted that he helped to fund hamas.
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I never understood this talking point. The most meaningful reality of "Palestine" is that it's a bunch of Arabs who lived there for 2000 years or more, whatever they call themselves.
They haven't lived there for 2000 years. That whole narrative is just false. Jews and Muslims haven't been in a perpetual civilizational war for thousands of years. It's been a war between jewish progressives and arab progressives for a about a century. Any violence before that was just standard violence than any separate community would find living in an Islamic state.
Of the people that have lived there, some are Syrian, some are Jordanian, some are Egyptian, some are Bedoin. All moved in and out at different times. But it was never a nation of people, and it isn't one now. Palestinians are as legit of a nationality as Queers are.
The Romans kicked out the Jews in 70 AD. My point is that people other than Jews have been living there ever since, up until recent Jewish settlement.
Whether they are a homogenous people is beside the point in my eyes. They have houses, and they don't like getting kicked out of them any more than the Jews who were booted from the Second Temple.
It's not like the jews didn't live in the same general area, so did the romans, so did the arabs. I'm not talking about what version of semitic they are. These populations just haven't been perfectly static
Yeah I know but that's kind of a minor point. I'm willing to grant that most of the people there don't have 2000 year long lineages, but they don't need to. Even the longest American lineages only go back 400 years.
2000 years ago the place was called Judea. Jews lived there centuries before islam was a thing.
Not when Hadrian got done with them.
Who do you think moved into the area after the Romans kicked out the Jews in 70 AD? I said 2000 years ago for a reason.