Statistic on the news said that 50% of the population there are under 18…

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    1 year ago

    Antisemitism was already extreme at this time. It culminated in ww2, but it was already very pronounced a century earlier. Racism theories saw people like subhuman, but they also saw Jews like a different, grotesque kind of human.

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        Partly I think. I'm no expert. But after ww2 the US and USSR split the world between eachother, so with Israel the US had an opportunity for a vassal in this area. And politicaly the Jews being harassed everywhere through all of history made its case to give them a part of land.

        I think that the area was a colony at the time, so it was easier for the west to give a land it doesn't care much about.

        The kurdes would like a solution like this these days I think. But given today's context their chance is slim.