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I'm neither Kurdish or Yazidi and the replies get my blood boiling.
that's actually quite an apt comparison. The Arab settlers in Efrin are survivors of mass atrocities, similar to the Jews who flocked to Israel upon its establishment from Europe & the Arab world.
I agree with that, but I highly doubt Erdogan cares about them at all. He's using them to settle scores.
hard to peer into a man's soul. I think Turkey has been the most generous country when it comes to Syrian refugees, but of course in Efrin Turkey also has other interests
Especially when that man has no soul.
Sorry I missed the part where Homsis and Goutanis claimed that Efrin was their holy land, it’s very easy to condemn what happened without restoring to overtly sensitive comparisons Elizabeth, this is a reach tbh
I think Elizabeth is harkening back here to more of a Herzl-era Zionism.
Doesn’t make it any better, no good comes out of equations like these and no need for it honestly to just appease some ppl
As in all historic comparisons, of course they're not identical. I was agreeing that some similarities do exist. W/ regards to the point you raised, many of those who came to Palestine in 1948 were not Zionists & came solely because no other place would take them.
Those who did have other places to go, did so, for example the mass flight of Jews from Algeria to France, from Syria & Lebanon to France & the US, European Jews to the US. Many European Jews were still in refugee camps in 1948 https://www.gale.com/binaries/content/assets/gale-us-en/primary-sources/archives-unbound/primary-sources_archives-unbound_post-war-europe_refugees-exile-and-resettlement_1945-1950.pdf … (pdf)
Even with this comparison, as flawed as it is, you risk painting IDPs from other regions as the perpetrator as they’re already portrayed by some Kurds in you mentions. Turkey as a state is untouchable so the bulk of the blame will fall on defenceless Arabs.
It’s like adding fire to the flame, and I cannot be the only one who thinks that most Jews who came to Palestine deeply believed or weren’t opposed to the idea of holy land? This is the centre of argument when you think of Palestine/Israel as an Arab so it’s dangerous imo
Ask anyone living there and they’d tell you they’d rather be home rather than living in someone else’s home, what I meant that there’s no ideological attachment
It was in no way necessary to ethnically cleanse Kurds from their homes in a Kurdish city to give to Arab refugees. Turkey could have expanded Jarablus, and al-Bab for Arab refugees. The looting, raping and massacre of Kurds in Efrin was done out of revenge because rebels
blamed "atheist Kurds" for their failed revolution. What Turkey is doing to Efrin is probably more analogous to Nazi Germany and Hitler's concept of "lebensraum."
Afrin is the promised land for Arabs from Ghouta? There was no place in Jarabulus, Al Bab or Azaz? The only solution was to kick out Kurds from Afrin and replace them with jihadi Arabs? That's how you justify all the atrocities in Afrin? Saved.
Very well said, indeed! Afrin? Promised land for the Arabs of Ghouta? What a comparison with the innocent Jews of the Arab countries forced to seek refuge in Israel!
You mean, they're foreign colonizers ethnically cleansing the locals?
https://twitter.com/mutludc/status/1132869001296654337?s=21 … @Elizrael u keep trying to justify ethnic cleansing without any shame and u call yourself a journalist pleasegive ur head a shake.
Oh the jihadist loving zionist again trying to whitewash turkeys crimes
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