• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    The same reason you don’t know where Moldova is. It’s a small place with a ethnicty you’ve never heard of.

    Palestine is is something you hear about on the evening news like every other week, so everyone knows what it is.

    It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.

    If you asked a Chinese citizen what Palestine is, they’d probably have no idea what you were talking about. Because they and their country have no interests there.

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      19 days ago

      It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.

      Uh… no? For the most part pre-20th century Palestine was a backwater nobody really cared about (the Crusades being the big exception).

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        4 days ago

        oh right, the crusades and the Muslim caliphate wars over it didn’t exist. That’s just fiction or something.

        I totally forgot! And it wasn’t conquer by Rome, or the Assyrians or any of that either, before christ. And there weren’t jewish rebellions either…

    • Fleppensteyn@sh.itjust.works
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      19 days ago

      Why would anyone not know where Moldova is. It’s next to Ukraine and they have the Russia-loving Transnistria, which I’m sure has been relevant with the war and all