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Lithos

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1. You do realize

Reply to Picaro (Original post)

Wed Oct 11, 2023, 11:59 AM

Oct 2023

It goes back farther in time?

Yet, even all of that perspective is really moot when most of what is happening is the result of two very similar conservative ideologies which are riding at the crest of two nationalistic movements? Likud and Hamas bear much resemblance to each other in their origins, actions and their desired outcomes.

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History of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict [View all] Picaro Oct 2023 OP

You do realize Lithos Oct 2023 #1

Yeah, like I'm supposed to trust Bibi here? Nope. Just like I wouldn't trust Trump if something ZonkerHarris Oct 2023 #5

Starting at 1947? lol WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2023 #2

Don't you know? Nothing happend before WWII. ZonkerHarris Oct 2023 #6

600 A.D. would be a good starting point. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2023 #3

Yup. I always ask people who say it's all Arab land to explain to me why Marius25 Oct 2023 #7

Oddly enough earlier period was essentially Jews against Jews. haele Oct 2023 #10

There is a lot left out of that chronicle, including the convenient starting point. JohnSJ Oct 2023 #4

All the souls on both sides who are suffering had nothing to do with the original conflict randr Oct 2023 #8

In 1947... lapucelle Oct 2023 #9

Nobody thinks of the poor old Ottoman Empire anymore. Torchlight Oct 2023 #11

One of the hardest things to do in history is to pick a "starting point".... Wounded Bear Oct 2023 #12

What a joke of an article. Mosby Oct 2023 #13

Just to broaden this out a bit... WarGamer Oct 2023 #14