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Alternative locations for a "Jewish Nation" - 1945 (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (8 children)

It looks like they were trying to avoid areas with significant existing/indigenous populations. The proposed size of roughly 50,000 square miles is slightly larger than Iceland is, and there would be a sizeable displaced or second-class local population, which it seems like this author was trying to avoid.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Jews only owned 9% of land and was disperced so there was 91% of the land populated by the indigenous palestinians

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    That assumes that all land was owned/populated by someone, which is not necessarily true. I don't know enough about it to say.

    Regardless, the point is that the people writing this publication seemed to care about not taking land from existing peoples - the same is not so true for when Israel was actually founded.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Which of the proposed location was not populated?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The one between Western Australia and the Northern Territory is pretty empty.

    I would hazard a guess at some of the Russia/China areas.

    Bear in mind that we're talking empty during the 1940s, not today.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago*

    There was actually multiple tribes in western Australia during the creation of the proposal. It was indeed inhabited. The same problem exists in all the proposals. You can't never be sure the other religious and ethnic group would in the future outgrow the jews

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