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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's an incredibly reductive oversimplification. The modern state of Israel exists due to the political Zionist movement which began in the 19th C and the sympathy for the Jewish people following Nazi Germany's eugenicist attempt to wipe them out.

A couple of millennia before that, you had the conflicts of the competing tribes and civilizations in the Fertile Crescent, which resulted in the Jewish diaspora.

Religion has typically been weaponized to justify one group of people taking control of resources and land from another, but it has rarely been the root cause per se.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

I'd add that the original zionist movement consisted of jews living in the Ottoman empire, and the 'agreement' to give them a slice of it was taken by the Allied powers towards the end of the first world war.