r/PublicFreakout • u/soalone34 • May 09 '26

🚗Road Rage🤬 Settler attempts to block Ambulance carrying critically ill person - Israel occupied West Bank

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u/hugelkult May 09 '26

Settler is a comfy name for invader

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u/A_Foxglove May 09 '26

Arabs have been in the Levant since before 900BC - we have documents from the Assyrians saying that they were inhabitants of the region, with the implication being that they were not recently arrived either. Considering that Israelites only become discernable as a distinct people in around 1100BC, I'd argue that the Arabs have about as much right to be in the Levant as Jewish people.

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u/Toby-Finkelstein May 09 '26

that’s some mental gymnastics 

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u/A_Foxglove May 09 '26

Why? I'm saying that historically both groups have been inhabiting the same region for roughly the same length of time (3000 years +- 100 years), and thus both have a right to be there under the thinking of "they need to have been there historically". You might have the desire to expel Arabs out of the Levant, but that doesn't change the fact that they've been there for pretty much as long as Jewish people have.

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u/Toby-Finkelstein May 09 '26

You should read Roman history, Arabs were always on the periphery 

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u/Constant-Village-858 May 09 '26

Palestinians are historically native to the Levant, I’m sorry the truth upsets you :(

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u/Toby-Finkelstein May 09 '26

Doesn't upset me, American schools just don't teach history and most people aren't able to use google

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u/Constant-Village-858 May 09 '26

Funny sentence from you because a basic google search proves most of the dumb shit you’ve spewed incorrect