• mrdown@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Jews only owned 9% of land and was disperced so there was 91% of the land populated by the indigenous palestinians

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      17 days ago

      That assumes that all land was owned/populated by someone, which is not necessarily true. I don’t know enough about it to say.

      Regardless, the point is that the people writing this publication seemed to care about not taking land from existing peoples - the same is not so true for when Israel was actually founded.

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          17 days ago

          The one between Western Australia and the Northern Territory is pretty empty.

          I would hazard a guess at some of the Russia/China areas.

          Bear in mind that we’re talking empty during the 1940s, not today.

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            17 days ago

            There was actually multiple tribes in western Australia during the creation of the proposal. It was indeed inhabited. The same problem exists in all the proposals. You can’t never be sure the other religious and ethnic group would in the future outgrow the jews