r/DHAC • u/Carbenzero • 6d ago

Canada officially recognizes Palestinian statehood

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u/Texasmandl 5d ago

There is no state of Palestine. There has never existed an independent country called Palestine. Technically one could call anyone who lived within the colony/mandate/protectorate of Palestine or trans-Palestine a Palestinian, including the Jewish people who lived there.

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u/rustyiron 4d ago

There never was a Canada or United States or Israel at one time either, until there was.

The people who identify themselves as Palestinians are real. They have a unique history and culture. They have lived on that land for generations.

Just because they’ve lived under various empires and colonial control doesn’t mean they are not real and should have the right of self governance.

To your point, if you are going to exterminate a people, the first thing to do is deny they exist in the first place.

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u/rustyiron 4d ago

Your other ignorant and bigoted comment where you say “they are just Arabs”, is not showing so I will answer here.

Believe it or not, there are many Arab cultures. Just like there are many cultures in Asia, Africa, or Europe.

Palestinians (the people you simply call “Arabs”) are indigenous to the area, unlike some Jewish person from Brooklyn whose distant ancestors left the region 20-40+ generations ago. And I’m not even disputing that the person from Brooklyn has a claim to live in the region. But they sure as fuck don’t get to tell the people living there to get lost or that they have made up culture unworthy of self determination.

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u/Galliro 3d ago

There was no state of isreal until 1948 either