Hasn’t that area been at war for hundreds of years?

  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The modern Isreal-Palestine conflict began just after WWII when Britan, who took the land during the war, decided it wasn’t worth colonizing and somehow accidentally sold the same parcel of land to both Isreal and Palestine. Oops! They then asked the newly created UN to fix the problem and they drew a jigsaw puzzle map that both Isreal and Palestine hated. Isreal then immediately occupied most of the disputed land by force and the UN did nothing about it.

    I don’t think people are surprised about attacks killing large amounts of civilians in this area. I think people are more surprised world leaders have mostly decided to act like nothing is wrong with the situation and there’s no need to fix or change anything. In any other area where things like this occur, the countries involved are usually heavily sanctioned or chastised by other world leaders.

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      1 year ago

      what would you have the UN do? immediately post ww2 basically all of the Jews in europe were landless persons - they couldnt really return to their countries of origin because most of those cities didnt exist or the countries really didnt want them back. shipping them off to Israel wasnt the best plan but there was historical precedent and ultimately it worked out pretty well.

      the arabs disagreed of course and that led to the conflicts in the 1960s where Israel slapped them down. since then it’s been a lot of terrorism since none of the arab countries in the area is willing to actually go to war again - they’re aware they have zero chance of success.