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@Yaneeve13

Former Liberal Progressive. DEI is a lie. Equality under the law. Zionist. Son, husband, father. Israeli. Globetrotter. Jew. Love is blind. Keyboard warrior.

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The Day After The question is no longer what should be done with the Jewish people. That age old problem had been answered. The Jewish people had been confered the land from the River to the Sea, via multiple international agreements. The partition of that land was an offer that was never accepted by the Arabs of the region. The question is, what should be done with the people designating themselves Palestinians. The Palestinian question is one that was invented to answer the Jewish question. But so many words have already spilled on that one that I will not bother about it here. The answer to the Palestinian question is, actually an easy one. It has 2 parts to it. To all those that are willing to put away their "Palestinian" identity and are currently present in the land between the River and the Sea, they can assume an Israeli identity. They would need to pass a rigerous integration course and pass naturalization tests. JUST LIKE FOR ANY OTHER COUNTRY. I foresee that this will be a minority of peoples, probably no more than 1.5 million. To all the rest, those people who wish to be Israel-hating Arabs, then they can take their Israel hatred with them somewhere else. Where? No country in the middle east really wants them. (Basically for two reasons, one is that they wish to pereptuate the situation, with a basic understanding that eventually it will overturn history and rid the area of the Jewish state. The second reason is that the Palestinians really did do everything in their power to violently attack any country that they lived in...) So, we have established that no country wants them, but I think we can change that. Israel is home to Islam's third holiest site. This site is also the most holy of holies for Judaism - the temple mount. In no other case in history did the victor allow a place of worship of the loser to stay as it was. Israel, as always, is a beacon of light to the world and has maintained the integrity of the site for Islam. It has also enabled Jordan to be the custodian of that site. I maintain that nothing in life is free. I suggest that, the country that takes in the MOST amount of Palestinians and integrates them into its society will be the one to receive permanent CUSTODIANSHIP of ALL of the Islamic sites of the Holy city. Now tell me this isn't fair.
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Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra·
Oi @Keir_Starmer When you had your @attorneygeneral lock me away for 18 months for making a documentary & you took me to maximum security facilities placing me in solitary for over 7 months did you ever envisage that just 12 months after my release I’d be humiliating you on the world stage like this . Death prison or glory we will never stop fighting for Britain 🇬🇧
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MILLIONS OF PATRIOTS MARCH THROUGH LONDON! The establishment said nobody would come. The media tried to ignore it. But the streets of London were PACKED. This aerial footage from the Unite The Kingdom rally shows the TRUE scale of the march. Millions of people standing together for Britain, freedom of speech, and national identity. WATCH. SHARE. LET THE WORLD SEE IT. 🇬🇧🔥

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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Anne Hathaway, in 2014, was filming Interstellar in Iceland. Hathaway had been vegan, by that point, for several years. She had announced the diet publicly. She had defended it in interviews. She had built part of her public image around it. Her husband Adam Shulman had supported it through every dinner. In Reykjavik, during a break in filming, she went to a Michelin-starred restaurant with Shulman and her co-star Matt Damon. Damon told the chef to choose the meal for the table. The plates arrived. Salmon. Hathaway, in her own retelling to Tatler, asked sheepishly: "Is your fish local?" The waiter replied: "Do you see that fjord?" She ate the salmon. The phrase she used, afterwards, was that her brain felt like "a computer rebooting." She felt better the next day. She has not returned to veganism since, except briefly for a film role in 2022, which lasted three weeks before she turned to Shulman one morning and said: "I need a burger." Anne Hathaway has access to the best nutritionists in the world. She has the discipline of a working actress who can starve herself for parts and gain weight for others. She has the resources to source any plant-based ingredient on the planet, at any time, in any quantity. She also has a nervous system. The nervous system did the talking. On a piece of salmon, in a Reykjavik restaurant, on a Tuesday in 2014, it rebooted. The metaphor, in the literal medical sense, is almost accurate. The brain is approximately 60% fat. The fat it prefers, structurally, is the long-chain omega-3 found in oily fish. The fjord was full of it. Her bloodstream, prior to that dinner, had been running on flax. The system came back online with the salmon. She has not gone back.
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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich@newtgingrich·
There is a dominant (and wrong) view in Washington that the combination of economic and diplomatic pressure will force the Iranians to agree to abandon 47 years of history and sign a truce which strips them of everything for which they have been working. This is a deeply anti-historic view. Why would you expect a dictatorship which survived 1 million casualties fighting Iraq to be intimidated by a few weeks of bombing? gingrich360.net/p/too-much-amb…
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dan linnaeus@DanLinnaeus·
“The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states. Even before recognition the state has the right to defend its integrity and independence…” Art. 3, Montevideo (1933) In international law sovereignty is declarative per the Montevideo Convenvtion of ‘33. It is a factual existence couched in four empirically establishable criteria, not recognition.
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Uri Kurlianchik
Uri Kurlianchik@VerminusM·
What's your favorite show or movie about Israeli history?
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Uri Kurlianchik
Uri Kurlianchik@VerminusM·
OMG! John Cleese retweeted me! The man is responsible for so many hours of laughter in my life.
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MummyisTired
MummyisTired@MummyisT·
There has never been an imposed demographic change in world history like what’s happened in Europe over the last few decades. This isn’t ancient conquest, medieval invasion, colonial settlement, or post-war ethnic cleansing. It’s something distinct: rapid, large-scale population shifts in peaceful, high-trust, prosperous, democratic societies driven primarily by government policies on immigration, asylum, and family reunification—without military defeat, conquest, or existential labor shortages that forced it. They’ve changed our lives and world completely and call us names for noticing.
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Mark R. Levin
Mark R. Levin@marklevinshow·
DEAL OR NO DEAL When we suddenly hit the brakes and called off the planned military operation against the Iranian regime, it was clear that something was going on.  We gave the regime 2-3 days to come to some arrangement that presumably includes no nukes.  What does no nukes mean?  Are their scientists going to forget what they developed?  How long can we keep that in a box?  What happens to the enriched uranium? We are told: 1. they have enough to make 10 bombs in 11 days, and 2. that it takes a matter of weeks to further enrich uranium from 60% to 90% nuclear grade.  What about the plutonium, which no one is talking about?  And the ballistic missiles, that were destroying targets throughout the Middle East?  And the range of those missiles, which can now hit Europe?  We didn't even know how far those missiles could reach.  I guess all of this will change?  The Iranian regime that kicked out inspectors, hid their activities, and violated every single agreement it ever signed, will have changed because of our military actions?  Honestly, does this act or sound like a regime that is defeated or cares about death?  For some reason, the West cannot get its collective head around the fact that the Iranian regime's mindset is not one of mutual existence.  It is a religious, extremist, fundamentalist cult that insists on conquering or destroying all those who do not bend to its ideology. They have told us this.  They have written this.  They preach this.  It is in their books, pamphlets, sermons, etc.  It is a revolution without borders, not merely one nation among others.  Haven't we learned this by now?  Many Americans have been killed during the last 47-years as a result of the regime's ambitions.  My greatest concern has always been enforcement, which has not been discussed much even after all of this time.  If there is a deal, whatever deal it is, perhaps the greatest deal in the history of deals, again, the regime cheats, lies, and hides what it is doing.  Our intel and satellites simply cannot catch all of it.  And if we find violations, then what?  "Well, we'll hit them again, Mark."  Is that what we did before Trump?  Does anyone believe that's what we will do after Trump?  Is that what a Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris or the rest of the Democrats would do if one of them became president?  Heck, even Republican presidents did not act.  For crying out loud, look at all the noise, the appeasers, the pacificists, the isolationists, etc.  These are loud movements in our politics and government.  And look at the reaction to the temporary increase in a gallon of gasoline.  Would we have the will even a few years from now? And what of Hezbollah, still a potent terrorist force?  And what of Hamas?  The Iranian regime will promise not to support them?  My response: is the Brooklyn Bridge still for sale?  And how do we stop the regime if it funds them anyway?  What will we do?  And the Iranian people?  What of them?  "They should rise up," it is said.  Well, they did.  Without arms.  And they paid a horrendous price and still are.  I can only imagine what more would be done to them. Of course, the Europeans will be useless, as they are now.  Even with detente with China and something like it with Russia, they still will provide support to the Iranian regime.  So will North Korea.  We have no control over their sabotage of any deal.  This all must be considered. And the Democrats, always desperate for a political opportunity, will ask rhetorically, "why did we go to war," "this is Obama 2.0," "we wasted billions for nothing," "Trump is a TACO," and on and on.  I can hear it now.  The truth won't matter.  The spin will be constant.  Of course, if the Democrats had their way, the Iranian regime would already have nuclear weapons.  But none of that will matter.  This could be very damaging for the mid-term elections, despite all the demands for "off-ramps."  Yet, the problem is the regime itself, is it not?  How do we contain it if it survives? To be absolutely clear, I have no inside information. In fact, as far as I know at the end of another 2-3 days of negotiations military action against the regime will resume.  But it's very important to think about these issues and much more.
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Al-Jewlani is still my favourite conspiracy theory, nothing has really come close. He's almost the spitting image of Theodore Herzl and it's driving a large section of X insane.
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Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox@Mr_Andrew_Fox·
After a few days in Somaliland, meeting government ministers, local administrators, soldiers, port officials, business people and ordinary Somalilanders, I leave with one overriding impression: this is a country waiting to exhale. It is not perfect and no country is. Somaliland’s politics are contested but have passed the test, its institutions need development, and its eastern disputes need careful handling. However, the basic fact is hard to escape. Somaliland governs itself. It has built order from collapse, held competitive elections, maintained functioning institutions, secured its own streets, and developed Berbera into a strategic asset on one of the world’s most important maritime corridors. Recognition would simply be the formal acknowledgement of a reality that already exists. The contrast with Somalia makes this even more obvious. The internationally recognised state next door continues to absorb billions in aid, diplomatic attention and security assistance while remaining unable to impose authority across its own territory. Huge tracts of Somalia are run by Al Shabab, the government barely controls Mogadishu, and even then, their leader is a Muslim Brotherhood extremist. Yet Somaliland, which has done so much more with so much less, is left in legal limbo. That limbo now serves no serious strategic purpose. It complicates investment, constrains security cooperation, weakens maritime partnerships, and leaves a stable, pro-Western polity exposed while others shape the Red Sea corridor. The people I met did not speak like petitioners asking for a favour but as citizens of a country that has earned its place. There is pride here, but also impatience. Somaliland is not asking the world to invent a state. It is asking the world to recognise the one that has existed, in practice, for more than three decades. Recognition can only be a good thing: for Somaliland, for Britain, and for a region that badly needs functioning partners. We need to make a choice. Other countries like China in Djibouti and Turkey in Somalia are already shaping the strategic picture. Do we want to sit back and let them do so in a strategic part of the world, or do we want to have an influence? If so, doing the right thing and recognising Somaliland serves both their interests as well as ours.
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
On This Day — May 18, 2014 A Palestinian professor, Dr. Mohammed Dajani, was forced to resign after weeks of vicious threats, smears, and campus incitement — all because he led 27 Palestinian students to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, guided by Jewish Holocaust survivors. They studied the systematic murder of six million Jews. In return, his own university caved: faculty called him a traitor and “normalizer,” students protested with signs branding him a collaborator, the staff union expelled him, and the administration quietly accepted his resignation rather than defend academic freedom. Just months later, in January 2015, Dajani’s car was torched in a sophisticated arson attack outside his home. Perpetrators had pre-placed chemicals in the engine days earlier specifically to make it explode while driving — an attempt so dangerous it nearly killed him on the road from the airport. The message was crystal clear: there is no place in Palestinian society for acknowledging Jewish suffering, learning real history, or building any bridge of understanding. Dajani had co-written a 2011 New York Times op-ed arguing that teaching Palestinians about the Holocaust would make peace more attainable — by rejecting false equivalences with the “Nakba” and fostering basic human empathy. He believed knowledge could humanize the other side. Palestinian society answered with pure fury. An article about the trip was pulled after online outrage. Dajani, a former Fatah fighter, was branded a traitor for doing the unthinkable: exposing young Palestinians to the truth. This is the core problem with Palestinian society: genuine efforts at reconciliation, Holocaust education, or simple historical honesty are treated as betrayal and treason. Bridges are not wanted. Dialogue is not wanted. Learning the “Other’s” pain is not wanted. They want Israel destroyed — period. That’s why every serious peace offer has been rejected, why “normalization” is a dirty word punishable by social death (or worse), and why even a respected university professor trying to tell the truth had to flee his own community. When your culture punishes the moderates who seek knowledge and coexistence while rewarding the rejectionists and jihadists, the results are predictable: endless conflict, generations raised on hate, and no path forward except through Israeli strength. Dajani tried. Palestinian society made sure it would never happen again.
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Ahmed Al-Khalidi
Ahmed Al-Khalidi@khalidi79397·
And what happens if the West fails to correct course? 1. The standard becomes a weapon, not a principle. A moral framework applied to only one civilization stops being morality and becomes a targeting system. Every Western country and every ally identified as "Western-adjacent," Israel first among them, gets judged by rules no one else has to follow. The framework doesn't collapse from the contradiction. It just keeps firing in one direction until the target is gone. 2. Demographics decide what argument couldn't. Civilizations that believe their own existence is illegitimate don't reproduce, don't defend their borders, and don't transmit their values to the next generation. Europe is already living this. The population that replaces them will not inherit the guilt framework. It will inherit the institutions, and use them for entirely different purposes. 3. The Jews go first, and then everyone else. This is the pattern, and it is old. The delegitimization of Jewish indigeneity is never the endpoint; it's the test case. Once "you don't really belong here" works against the people with the longest documented claim to a specific land, it works against anyone. Europeans in Europe. Americans in America. The argument is portable. It always was. 4. The civilizations that kept their nerve inherit the century. China is not auditing itself over Tibet or Xinjiang. Turkey is not reexamining Anatolia. The Arab world is not reopening the conquest of North Africa. Iran is not apologizing for anything. While the West litigates its own right to exist, civilizations that never accepted the premise will simply fill the space economically, militarily, demographically, narratively. History does not pause for one civilization's introspection. 5. The achievements get repudiated along with the sins. A civilization that accepts a wholly negative account of itself eventually loses the ability to defend anything it built, including the parts the rest of the world actually wants. Rule of law. Scientific method. Individual rights. Pluralism. Free inquiry. These are not automatic. They were built by specific people in specific places, and they can be unbuilt. A West that no longer believes it deserved to produce them will not long continue to produce them. 6. And the framework dies with the civilization that hosted it. Here is the final irony. The very concepts the critics use: human rights, indigenous rights, anti-colonialism, universal dignity are Western inventions. They exist nowhere else as enforceable norms. When the West loses the confidence to defend itself, those concepts don't transfer to the successors. They disappear. The critics are sawing through the branch that holds the only court that would ever hear their case. The double standard isn't just unfair. It's terminal. A civilization can survive enemies. It cannot survive deciding that its own existence is the problem. The window to correct this is not infinite. It may already be narrower than it looks.
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So what would it actually take for Western society to drop the double standard? 1. End the monopoly on guilt. The West is the only civilization that built a moral vocabulary for examining its own sins and then handed that vocabulary exclusively to its critics. Either every civilization gets audited by the same rules, or none do. Asymmetric guilt isn't morality; it's surrender dressed up as virtue. 2. Restore the universities. The framework that produced this double standard was built in humanities and area-studies departments over fifty years. It won't unbuild itself. It requires hiring committees, tenure decisions, curricula, and funding sources that reward honest comparative history rather than activist conclusions dressed as scholarship. That's a generational project, not a tweet. 3. Tell the rest of the story. Most Westerners genuinely don't know that Arabs conquered an empire stretching from Spain to India, that Turks displaced the Christian populations of Anatolia, that the Bantu expansion absorbed entire peoples, that Islamic slavery ran for twelve centuries and trafficked more Africans than the Atlantic trade. None of this is hidden. It just isn't taught. Mainstream history education has to stop ending the conquest chapter in 1945. 4. Reward intellectual courage. Right now, an academic, journalist, or politician who points out the selective application of "colonizer" pays a career cost. Someone who applies it conventionally pays none. Until that incentive structure flips, until not asking the obvious questions becomes the reputational risk, the asymmetry will reproduce itself automatically. 5. Recover confidence. A civilization that believes its own existence is a crime cannot apply standards evenly, because the conclusion is fixed before the analysis begins. Self-criticism is a strength. Self-loathing is a pathology that masquerades as a strength. Telling them apart is the precondition for everything else. 6. Accept that some allies won't like it. Honest comparative history will offend regimes the West currently treats as untouchable. Not just adversaries, but partners. Real intellectual consistency has a foreign-policy cost. The current double standard exists partly because that cost has been judged too high to pay. It isn't. None of this happens by accident, and none of it happens quickly. Civilizations don't reform their moral vocabulary in an election cycle. But the alternative is a West that keeps applying its own highest standards exclusively to itself, until eventually it doesn't have the strength to apply them at all.

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Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet
Ridvan Aydemir | Apostate Prophet@ApostateProphet·
I was at the Unite the Kingdom rally yesterday. I've talked to Tommy, several speakers, guests, and many attendees. People were overwhelmingly peaceful and hopeful. They are sick and tired of being ignored by their governments. They want safety, security, and a better future for their people and their children. They love their country and are proud of their heritage. They don't want to be told that this is a bad thing. They want to revive and preserve their faith and their values. They don't want to be invaded and subdued. Most importantly, they do NOT want women, children, and especially the daughters to be in danger. They are furious about this. They want justice for those who have been wronged. They do not want to welcome or tolerate criminals. They reject violence and disorder. They want unity and stability. They want to fight for their country and express their love for it. A government that truly cares about the people and nation would appreciate this instead of demonizing it. A government that vilifies these sentiments is not a government that serves the people. It is a government that despises the people, and it deserves to lose and be replaced by one that serves them.
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John Cleese
John Cleese@JohnCleese·
I read everywhere about the 'hard right' This the term used to describe people who are Islamosceptic - that is, people who are doubtful about the merits of a religion that demands child marriage, the beating of women, and death to all who oppose it Perhaps 'sensible right' would be a better description
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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
This real-time 1948 article from The Economist completely destroys the modern “Nakba” narrative that was invented decades later as political propaganda. Straight from British eyewitnesses in Haifa, October 2, 1948: “Jewish authorities urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security ... However, of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa, not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. The most potent factor was the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging the Arabs to quit ... those who remained and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.” They didn’t flee because of “Zionist ethnic cleansing.” They fled because Arab leaders ordered them to get out of the way so their armies could “drive the Jews into the sea.” Then they lost the war they started — and spent the next 77 years rewriting history to blame the Jews. The “Nakba” you were taught? Pure revisionist fiction.
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The word “Nakba” (catastrophe) wasn’t invented by Palestinians to describe Jewish “ethnic cleansing.” It was coined in 1948 by a Syrian Arab historian, Constantin Zureiq, in his book The Meaning of the Disaster. He used it to describe the humiliating failure of the Arab world — their leaders’ arrogance, their lies to their own people, their military incompetence, and their refusal to accept a Jewish state. Zureiq wrote that the Arabs had “imaginary victories” and put their public “to sleep” with boasts — until the real disaster hit: they couldn’t wipe out the Jews. The original Nakba wasn’t about refugees. That a rebrand from several decades later. It was about the Arab leaders’ catastrophic decision to launch a war of extermination ... and lose. They’ve spent 77 years rebranding their own failure as Jewish guilt. That’s the only real "Nakba" they can’t forgive.

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Ahmed Al-Khalidi
Ahmed Al-Khalidi@khalidi79397·
So why does "indigenous vs. colonizer" almost always mean Europeans, and almost never Bantu, Turks, Arabs, Slavs, or Han Chinese? A few reasons, in descending order of how much they actually explain: 1. Recency and documentation. European expansion happened in the era of the printing press, photography, census records, and treaties. The Bantu expansion left no paperwork. The Arab conquests are 1,300 years old and mythologized as religious destiny rather than conquest. When the receipts exist, the case is easier to make, and Europeans left receipts. 2. The winners wrote the framework. Modern human-rights language, postcolonial theory, and the very category of "indigenous peoples" were built in Western universities after WWII, primarily to process European guilt over European empires. The tool was designed for one job. Asking it to evaluate the Arab conquest of Egypt or the Turkic conquest of Anatolia is like asking a tax form to diagnose a disease. It wasn't built for that. 3. Christendom is critique-able; other civilizations aren't. You can write a bestseller attacking Western Christian civilization from inside a Western university and win awards for it. Try writing the equivalent book about Arab-Islamic conquest from inside Cairo or Istanbul. The asymmetry isn't about history. It's about which societies tolerate self-criticism and which punish it. So the critical literature piles up on one side and barely exists on the other. 4. The Soviet inheritance. Cold War-era anti-colonial framing was deliberately shaped by Moscow to delegitimize the West while giving its own empire and its allies' conquests, a pass. That framework outlived the USSR and still structures a lot of academic and activist vocabulary today. 5. Race makes it legible. European colonizers usually looked different from the colonized. Turkic conquerors of Anatolia, Arab conquerors of the Levant, and Bantu expansionists in Africa generally didn't look dramatically different from the populations they absorbed. The visual contrast made European empire easier to narrate as racial, and once a story has a clean visual, it travels. 6. And finally, Jews. The framework's selective application reaches its most absurd point when a people indigenous to a specific land, with continuous presence, language, religion, and archaeological record tying them to it for three thousand years, get labeled "colonial settlers", while the actual seventh-century conquerors who Arabized the region get labeled "indigenous." At that point the framework isn't describing reality. It's laundering a conclusion. The label isn't tracking who got there first. It's tracking who it's currently fashionable to blame.
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"Indigenous" is a real concept applied with a fake standard. The word means "the population already there when someone else arrived." Fine. The problem isn't the definition. It's that the people who deploy it loudest apply it to exactly one set of migrations and pretend the others never happened. The Bantu expansion swept across half of Africa, absorbing or displacing the peoples who lived there first. No one calls Bantu-speakers settlers. The Turks arrived in Anatolia in the 11th century and replaced Greeks and Armenians whose roots there ran thousands of years deeper. No one demands they go back to Central Asia. Slavs pushed into lands held by earlier Europeans. Arabs spread from a single peninsula across North Africa and the Levant, Arabizing populations that had been there since antiquity. Anglo-Saxons displaced Britons. Han Chinese absorbed countless earlier peoples across what is now southern and western China. None of these get the colonizer label. Each one is treated as just "history." The label only activates for a narrow, politically chosen set. Almost always Europeans, and almost always Jews returning to the one place on earth where their indigeneity is older than the word itself. That's not a definition. That's a filter. And the filter exists to produce a predetermined answer. Hate the messenger if you like. The history isn't an opinion.

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