• Karjalan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Without looking at the sources, I’m going to assume it’s because, genetically speaking, Palestinians and Israelis are almost identical.

    Edit - yep… That’s the kicker.

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      6 months ago

      One is that Palestinians are a semitic peoples, while the settlers are nearly all euro-amerikkkan origin. So even by Israel’s old testament blood quantum calculus, they have much less claim to the land than the indigenous peoples do.