re: Pro-Palestine protest on LSU's campus outside Patrick F. Taylor Hall starting at noon

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Is that why they are blocking them on the UCLA campus and demanding schools divest from Israel?

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Shhhhhh. That goes against the terrorist sympathizer’s argument.

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No, we absolutely live on stolen land too

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Then you should give yours back.

All this shite's starting to feel like that ice bucket challenge, or maybe tide pods.

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Real question, if someone kicks you out of your own house because their ancestors lived there 300 years ago and punches you in the mouth, do you just walk away?


That's what you're demanding of Palestine

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to be fair, the Palestinians for the last 300 years were just squatters. they were exiled, rejected from their own country and just kinda congregated in that area since it wasn't really occupied well by England or Turkey (ottoman empire.)

i'm not saying they don't deserve to have a country to call home or better treatment... just that they weren't an established country or anything. And the Israelis can go back way further than 300 years ago.

They got deposed very easily in the 40s because they weren't a homogonous society with a real government.

Might doesn't make right, but neither does losing.

Every baw here is an expert on israeli-palestine relations. Amazing how quick they move on from afghanistan and ukraine and china. Wonder what the mainstream news cycle will direct their expertise to next.

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Ah. So only Palestinians have ancestors from that land. No other peoples have ever lived there.

fricking clown of an argument you’re trying to make.

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British
Ottoman
Byzantines
Romans
Persians
Assyrians
Israelites

Don't see Palestinians on this list.

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if someone kicks you out of your own house because their ancestors lived there 300 years ago and punches you in the mouth, do you just walk away?

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The Jewish people trace their roots in the Land of Israel back 4,000 years. A United Kingdom of Israel emerged in the second millennium BCE (before current era). It's most famous leader was King David, alive about 1,000 BCE. This is part of the Deuteronomic history first recorded around 550 BCE, detailing the origin of ancient Israel.

In other words, 300 years? Okay.....

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The Jews were there for over 3000 years, long before Palestine was even a concept, or Islam even existed. They were kicked out and came back several times. They were pretty much continuously there except for about 20 years when they were kicked out by the Jordanians. They have just as much right to anything there as anyone. More, in fact.

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Counter-point: “NUH UHHHHH!!!”

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self evident that if you’re making a middle east issue part of the American left vs right dichotomy something is off with your perspective.

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Yeah it totaly hasn't played out as the left supporting Palestine and the right supporting Israel. I'm sorry, the view must be different from atop your ivory tower of knowledge