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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
How the Ottomans are let off the hook so easily is funny. A lot of the current administrative boundaries came from them and they sold land to Zionist settlers without compensating the tenants on the land who were currently living there (almost all land in the Ottoman Empire was considered "crown" land). They forcibly resettled people to manipulate demographics in the ME, they also did it in the Balkans which is one of the reasons that area also became messed up for so long.
When the Ottomans were defeated and Britain and France became the temporary caretakers, the place was already messed up. Modern day Turkey is by the way, considered the legal successor to the Ottoman Empire having inherited all their treaties and liabilities in the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. If people are going to blanket blame "The West", at least include Turkey in that.
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Honestly folks bashing Israel's creation (separate from criticism of Israel policies and government) / "the west" probably have no idea what the Ottomans even are or will simply excuse it as being too far in the past. You give them too much credit to think they may have let something they have never heard of from social media history off the hook.
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In 1891, a group of Jerusalem notables sent a petition to the central Ottoman government in Istanbul calling for the cessation of Jewish immigration, and land sales to Jews
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Most opposition to the immigration of Jews to Palestine was extremely antisemitic and deeply xenophobic in its nature and existed just as strongly if not moreso 135 years ago.
As did those who invaded in 1948 under this same pretense.
https://www.gov.il/en/pages/arab-lea...n-of-palestine
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England administered Palestine in a manner which enabled the Jews to flood it with immigrants and helped them to settle in the country. [This was so] notwithstanding the fact that it was proved that the density of the population in Palestine had exceeded the economic capacity of the country to absorb additional immigrants.
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Someone famous also spoke against settlement and giving land to said people.
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We are resolved to prevent the settlement in our country of a strange people which was capable of snatching for itself all the leading positions in the land, and to oust it.
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https://www.yadvashem.org/docs/extra...er-speech.html
Almost like if there is a pattern behind the animosity and hostility.