This meme is from 2004. History repeats itself.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    From their perspective, someone just moved into their house one day and when they objected they said “let’s compromise, you can keep half of the house.” No wonder they rejected that compromise.

    Unfortunately we’re now a couple of generations past that initial event so it’s a lot more complicated at this point.

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        1 year ago

        With a number of important caveats. Most notably:

        If the true owner doesn’t sue to kick you out within the 20 years, that land is your land.

        You can’t just “run out the clock” while the original owner is actively disputing your ownership of that land.

        Also note that this law is for Illinois, not for the US as a whole. It varies from state to state.

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      Correct me if I’m wrong here, but I don’t think they “just moved in”. They’ve lived there for a long time as well, but the former country of Palestine was quite divided ethnically, and that caused issues due to extremists (on both sides).

      The purpose of splitting Palestine was to get two countries that were at least less divided ethnically, but due to where people lived Israel still remained quite evenly divided between muslims and jews whereas the new Palestine was close to 100% muslims.

      Countries have been split all over the world before in somewhat similar manners without causing as big conflicts, showing that this could’ve been done in a peaceful manner. What went wrong here? I don’t know.

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      1 year ago

      At this rate they shall soon have no house at all. Constant terror attacks against an undefeatable enemy and an unwillingness to compromise will ensure it.