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Whatever happened to land belonging to whoever conquers it?
Land doesn't "belong" to any particular group of people just because they inhabited it previously.
whether designated as a group by ethnicity, language, culture, etc, at the end of the day, a plot of land is owned by whoever occupies/governs it.
"But... but the 2 kingdoms of Israel! Da jewz where there 4 ever! And... And da twelve tribes, folx!"
Yes, they where. Then the levant was conquered by the Romans. After that the Byzantines held it, until the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates conquered it. Then it was held by mamluks, and then ottomans, etc.
It is utterly pointless to argue that a specific group of people are entitled to a plot of land just because they at one time inhabited it.
Land doesn't "belong" to any particular group of people just because they inhabited it previously.
whether designated as a group by ethnicity, language, culture, etc, at the end of the day, a plot of land is owned by whoever occupies/governs it.
"But... but the 2 kingdoms of Israel! Da jewz where there 4 ever! And... And da twelve tribes, folx!"
Yes, they where. Then the levant was conquered by the Romans. After that the Byzantines held it, until the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates conquered it. Then it was held by mamluks, and then ottomans, etc.
It is utterly pointless to argue that a specific group of people are entitled to a plot of land just because they at one time inhabited it.