“The Herero revolted in early 1904, killing between 123 and 150 German settlers, as well as seven Boers and three women,[25]: 74 in what Nils Ole Oermann calls a "desperate surprise attack".[40]”
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I deeply mourn these German settlers
Those poor German settlers
Why doesn’t anyone think of the colonizers?! Pray for peace
Time out...
Tomorrow, an orchestrated domestic terrorist attack by tribes of native americans begin to declare war on the U.S and state everyone who lives in the U. S are occupiers.
You were born here? fukk it, not the people who colonized it so I'm attacking any and everyone on sight.
I am VERY sympathetic to Native Americas when looking at their history.
I still would say it's an action I don't support because the people today shouldn't have to deal with violence related to the subjugation of Native Americans. At the time? Oh yea, I wish they would have killed every European explorer who stepped foot on the soil for the first time.
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Now, since this topic is at issue. I think we should all figure out what the rules of the intellectual fight is going to be.
Are we onformed, atleast, surface level as to what the "illegal settlement" was?
This whole situation has made me really research the history. Based on all of the rhetoric and loud debates, I was sure jews just came in and without any connection or actual pre-1948 presence in population just forces Palestinian control and government to cease to exist, move over and get the fukk out or be killed.
From what I understand, Palestine, the entire area was controlled by the imperial presence of the Ottoman Empire.
You know how long?
400 years.
During the 1800s, tens of thousands of jewish imigrants took root in those areas. They had no control and were just another population that was subject to the Ottoman imperial state.
After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as a result of WW2, the British were essentially left to hold the bag.
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My opinion - The British probably saw this as an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The covert scheme to get Jewish population the fukk out of Europe because of their own xenophobia and to wash their hands of an area they didn't want or didn't have the resources to maintain.
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Fast forward two decades of Palestine and modern day Israel being under British rule and they came up with the plan to establish a nation of Israel.
The original plan - proposed by the United Nations - was for the land to be partitioned into two states; a Jewish and Arab state. Unfortunately, the Arab delegates rejected it.
My point is, if the above is true, disregarding my opinion, shyt is not as black and white as illegal colonizers deserve to be killed on sight.
The topic of subjugation and apartheid of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government is definitely something that anti-Israel sentiment can be justifiably fueled by.
Again, at this point, there has been so much war, fighting and hostility that I can't support Hamas attacks as if this is all because of a one sided hostility.
If I'm Israeli and I'm 22 years old, there is no way I'm realistically thinking about a completely non physical response to Hamas or the history of wars against Israel. I should definitely have a moral compass and support the human treatment of Palestinians. But, these are both two populations that have intimate trauma and that makes the chicken or the egg conversation a bit multifaceted.
fukk...I didn't want to get in so deep with this issue but, I'm hear. I just have to ensure my opinion is not guided by disrespect and I'm not shouting at people to hear my point or be labeled as evil
