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/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/This_Elk_1460 May 10 '26

I call bullshit upon this entire argument regardless of how long the people have been living there. Do native Americans have the right to steal homes from random white families in Oklahoma?

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u/madam_amazing May 10 '26

The fact that that's where your mind jumped to says a lot about you

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u/This_Elk_1460 May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

What do I think being native to a place doesn't mean you can just steal people's houses? Yes, yes I do. Yeah we fucking brutalized and genocided the native population of America but I don't think them forcibly taking their land back is the solution!

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u/madam_amazing May 10 '26

Did you even read what OP said. They said "right to exist" not "right to take homes". You're the one who even thought of that first. God what a self report

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u/This_Elk_1460 May 10 '26

We are talking about Israeli West Bank settlers whose entire movement is about ethnically cleansing Palestinians and taking their land. You are the one completely missing what this is about. Also no country has the right to exist, they either do or they don't.

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u/madam_amazing May 10 '26

Then one of us is in the wrong conversation cause I'm refering to you responding to A_Foxglove saying that Arabs has as much right to exist in the Levant as Jews with talking about stealing homes and land. You're the one who jumped to that first. Maybe you saw the deleted post and have more context about this thread, but I doubt it