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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From the very start, the conflict was about which religion should rule the area.

What? If we're really talking about "the very start", then you couldn't be more wrong. The first real diaspora of Jews being pushed out of Israel was started by the Romans, who famously didn't care what religion you were so long as you paid unto Caesar that which is Caesars.

they could hardly have picked a worse place

I'm guessing you think the entirety of the Levant is one big sand dune or something? It's literally known as the fertile crescent dude, and in modernity it's strategically located near some of the largest energy reserves on the planet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah if it wasn't clear I'm talking about the modern state of Israel

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, that doesn't really work either. Palestinians and Jews cohabitated the land for years before any kind of conflict occurred, and the conflict that led to Israel being recognized as a nation state began over a land dispute between neighbors.

Religion has been used to fan the flames, but it wasn't the initial reason for the conflict. The idea that Islam is some kind of war like religion of intolerance is a modern notion. It can be traced to the spread of a particularly militant version of Sunni Islam as a response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Well, imo to state that the conflict is not about religion is like claiming the US civil war wasn't about slavery

The Arab Palestinian force that fought the zionists called themselves the 'Army of the Holy War'. Surely that was free from any religious reasoning