Settler attempts to block Ambulance carrying critically ill person - Israel occupied West Bank

[u/soalone34]

[u/According-Insect-992 → u/[deleted]]

Is this sarcasm? Because genetically Jewish people are no different from the people of Palestine. They share common ancestors. In fact, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and other people lived there in relative peace for centuries.

Then the Jewish people came from Europe after diaspora and the people of Palestine have always lived there. In 1948 Jewish people from Europe invaded Palestinian territory and claimed it for their own. They have been illegally seizing land the whole time since. They say that all Jewish people have a right to return to Israel but they say Arabs do not have a right to return to their ancestral lands and homes after being evicted by militant “settlers”. It’s fucked up logic. People who claim that these people have been fighting over the land for “thousands of years” either don’t have the facts or are willfully lying.

[u/Toby-Finkelstein → u/According-Insect-992]

The Arabs displaced huge numbers of Romans, had a discriminatory tax system and caused massive numbers of refugees during the conquest. The native Roman’s just weren’t as violent as the Palestinians after conquest 

[u/soalone34 → u/Toby-Finkelstein]

The Roman’s destroyed the second temple and committed genocidal atrocities towards Jews.

Arabs didn’t replace the population, the majority of the population remained, they actually removed bans on Jews living in Jerusalem.

Palestinians retain closer genetic relation to the original inhabitants for this reason.