Timeline for Why does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict receive so much media coverage?
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| Jun 30 at 8:15 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @F1Krazy: It's a pedantic point since the current conflict dates from around the Balfour Declaration and at that point, Israel was a de facto colony of Britain. In fact, it was handled by the Colonial Office. | |
| Jun 30 at 7:42 | comment | added | F1Krazy | I disagree. You're claiming that one of the reasons the Israel-Palestine conflict is prominent is because Israel is a colony, but it isn't a colony, therefore that reason is false. Maybe it's "pedantic" in the sense that you've provided four reasons and I've only disproved one of them, but the fact remains that your answer is claiming something that isn't true. | |
| Jun 30 at 6:18 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @F1Krazy: It's a pedantic point. | |
| Jun 13 at 8:33 | comment | added | F1Krazy | Israel isn't a colony. It was a British colony in 1920, in the form of Mandatory Palestine, but when it was partitioned by the UN and declared its independence on 14 May 1948 it ceased to be a colony and became an independent, self-governing nation. By your logic, every former British colony is still a colony, no matter how long ago it gained its independence. | |
| Jun 13 at 6:04 | comment | added | Allure | If it's a colony, then there must be a colonizing country. The "West" is not a country, so it's hard to see how it can be a colonizing country. Furthermore, colonizers would retain some links to the colonizing country, but Israelis seem to identify with Israel. | |
| Jun 13 at 6:01 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | @Allure: point 4 was not there when it was downvoted. Can you explain why it is "contentious" because I don't see it. | |
| Jun 13 at 5:54 | comment | added | Allure | Not my downvote, but point 4 seems highly contentious. | |
| Jun 13 at 3:13 | history | edited | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 13 at 1:11 | comment | added | Mozibur Ullah | Can the downvoter please explain the reason for the downvote as I don't see the reasons I listed as being particularly contentious. | |
| Jun 12 at 21:40 | history | answered | Mozibur Ullah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |