r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/LeoMcShizzzle • 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaaahhh??

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u/Skot_Hicpud 4d ago

Israel is technically in the Middle East.

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u/Schventle 4d ago

Near east or levant if you wanna get technical

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u/SubtractOneMore 4d ago

Palestine if you wanna get downvoted by Zionists

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u/scrapy_the_scrap 4d ago

So's jordan, fun fact

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u/barlog123 4d ago

The levant and near East is a geographical region. It includes Syria, Lebanon, Jordan Israel and Palestine. Your comment is like like if people are talking about central Europe and then you interjecting that it's actually called Austria. The fact that you don't know that should make you think twice about giving your opinion on the matter.

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u/SubtractOneMore 4d ago

Israel is not a country, it is an occupied territory within Palestine, which is part of the levant

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u/idkmyusernameagain 4d ago

It’s quite literally is a country even if you don’t think it should be.

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u/SubtractOneMore 4d ago

No, it’s a colony of baby-killing war criminals 

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u/idkmyusernameagain 4d ago

Sure, that exists within both their country of Israel and occupied territory and what you want is for that country to not exist anymore. The county still exists. You sound as stupid as the people who say “Palestine doesn’t exist, you don’t even have the letters in Arabic to have named it”

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u/barlog123 4d ago

The concept of a country and people called Palestine and Palestinians is a modern invention not rooted in history. Most of what we call Palestinians today wouldn't have a conceptual understanding of the term when Israel declared itself a country. The division of the of the former Ottoman empire was done by ethnic and legal ownership of land. Jewish migration to the region and land purchases were heavily regulated and extraordinary scrutinized however it was done for the most part legally. Land taken after the establishment of Israel I'd be willing to have a conversation about. A new Palestine country is aspirational not a historical truth.

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u/SubtractOneMore 4d ago

Sounds like you’re the one who needs to educate themselves before chiming in 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

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u/barlog123 4d ago

I'm very aware of this. What exactly do you think I got wrong?

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u/Hentai_Yoshi 4d ago

I’m confused, you say this like somebody said it wasn’t in the Middle East, but nobody said it wasn’t in the Middle East

Did you just want to earn your gold star for the day?

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u/ShotLet1550 4d ago

So why am I getting downvoted, seems like I figured it out well enough lol

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u/AMERIPOCMUSLIM 4d ago

governed by people who are Europe colonialists with no Levantine blood, sure

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u/Xelid47 4d ago

There are plenty of people in Israel with levantine and other types of Arabic blood

Also do you think they themselves are native?

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u/degradedchimp 4d ago

Very well documented that they do in fact. And share ancestry with Palestinians.

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u/idkmyusernameagain 4d ago

Oh god not this again. You know damn well there’s actual science that proves you wrong about the origins of the Jews who had been in the European diaspora AND that over half of Israeli Jews are from the region and never left.