Mastodawn

When the #Turks conquered #Arabia, #Arabs lost their religious #Caliphate to #Turkish Sultans, who merged powers of #Sultan and #Caliph

For 400 years before the #GreatWar #WWI, #Palestinians were under despotic Ottoman #occupation, subject to onerous #TurkishYoke

For 4 centuries, occupation was NOT an issue

End of WWI finally brought independence to Arabs (WWII for Palestinians), but they turned that #independence into #grievance against #Jewish presence in #MiddleEast

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Besides #Jews, there were 3 other broad categories of people in the region.

The boundaries & borders of #Palestine & #Arabian lands were VAGUE TO ALL.

This is why #Kitchener's offer for Arab independence from #TurkishYoke in exchange for Arab uprising in WWI was based on vague borders.

Arabs dreamed up #DamascusProtocol on their own with no regard to Palestinians

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#Palestinians loudly complain of #displacement, but they aren't the only ones who have been displaced in history.

15+ million #Hindus & #Muslims were displaced after #BritishIndia was partitioned into #India and #Pakistan in 1947.

#Jewish people suffered displacement MULTIPLE times, even ignoring #FirstExodus prior to 12th c. BCE:

#Zionist Movement was born of reasons well-known, among which was virulent #antisemitism in #Europe & #Russia.

#Palestinian authorities, themselves under #Turkish #occupation, begged #Ottomans to prohibit #Russian #Jews from immigrating even before the arrival of Zionists — most of whom arrived only after #WWI.

They never tolerated Jews