• Jiral@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    You are aware that 21% of the Israeli population are Arab, mostly identifiying themselves as Palestinian or Palestinian Arabs? They too?

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      19 days ago

      Technically, “Palestine” is the geographical name of the region, and has nothing to do with ethnicity or religion, whereas “Israel” was the historical Jewish nation and is the specific Jewish state in the area. If things were named sensibly, everybody there would be considered a Palestinian, and “Israeli Arabs” would be understood as referring to Mizrahi Jews.

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        19 days ago

        That this is crazy. A family that has lived in one of the old villages for centuries, being called an occupier just because they have Israeli citizenship?