Thousands of Israeli nationalists took part in the controversial Jerusalem Day “Dance of the Flags”.
The event is provocative to the Palestinian population, given it marks the anniversary of Israel seizing East Jerusalem and the Old City, and the group marches through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City.
Jerusalem’s status is one of the most divisive issues in the discussion about a two-state solution, with both Israelis and Palestinians believing it is intrinsically linked to their identity.
1930’s and 1940’s Germany called, they said keep up the good work
Never forget the Nazi Party’s regime of eradicating all minorities was inspired by the Europeans performing genocide on the indigenous people of what is now America. Of course, this is not exactly similar. The Israelites and Arabs have been quarreling ever since they existed. Over their fucking “holy land”. Honestly it’s like dragon sickness. Jews + Jerusalem = death and hostility to others.
Yeah… no. The Muslim world was the most tolerant place of Jews in the world (well, the part of the world where Jews existed, anyway) until the 20th century. It wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows don’t get me wrong, but there was no “quarreling” between Muslims and Jews. In fact, it was Muslims who allowed Jews back into their holy land after the Romans had kicked them out.
Dawg it was called the Crusades because it was exclueivley Christian nations fighting with Muslim nations over Jerusalem. Jews were essentially bystanders who often opted for the Islamic empire where they were allowed to live and not be constantly slaughtered by their Christian empire counterparts.
Israel as a functioning idea was introduced by the zionist movement of the 20th century, which Orthodox jews still condemn to this day because they claim there should not be a Jewish state without their Messiah.
To add to even more irony, the modern successors to these empires being Britain and Turkey actually lost interest in control of the holy land because it didn’t provide any substantial geopolitical power or resources. The Ottoman empire failed to protect it and lost the entirey of Trans Jordan in WWI, and Britain noped out right after WWII when they realized it could absolve them of having to provide for Jews in Europe.
Germany was the one that wanted the ethnostate.
Hitler praised the ruthlessness of how the United States dominated the Native Americans.
The Zionist movement had always existed as an extremist sect of Judaism, but opportunisticly stepped up and pretended to be the voice of the Jewish people during the reperations from WW2. This, with the help of their NATO allies, led to the creation of modern day Isreal on what was Palestinian land.
Nice hijack of the thread.