TIG Doug 🌲

You could justify the Norman conquest of England and the brutal harrying of north with this same twisted logic. It is actually irrelevant how developed or undeveloped the Palestinians were: while Haifa, Gaza, Jaffa, Acre, were thriving port cities that exported a decent amount of goods to the Mediterranean and MENA. The rest of the country were villages and towns, filled with peasants who worked their farms and lands for generations. The peasants were the life blood of the country, and anyone who claims to be blood and soil nationalist knows this about peasantry. These people were the descendants of the ancient Canaanites who had lived on that land for millennia, and the idea that they should be driven off their land, their houses and farms stolen by shtetl Jews who had never even touched a hoe, plow, or shovel in their life before migrating on mass to Palestine is ludicrous. Look at the kibbutzim now: what was supposed to be the pinnacle of so called ‘Hebrew labor’ have turned into resort towns where the Jews don’t work, they have Arabs and SE-Asians work it for them. The settlers don’t even grow their own crops or raise their own livestock: they steal it from the Palestinians in the West Bank. In fact, the settlements aren’t self- sufficient; they’re completely reliant on subsidies from the Israeli state, and they still use non-Jews for the majority of their labor within their settlements. Ancient houses and farming terraces, millennia of culture and history is being destroyed for what? So Jews can build ugly as fuck LA-style suburban tract homes subsidized by the Israeli state and private donations, while 2/3rds of settlers don’t even work *in* the West Bank, they commute to Israel proper? What kind of civilization is this?