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On 2025-04-25, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-25 01:34, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:33:42 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm aware of the history. Weren't different factions fighting for
>>> control of that territory before the British gave it away? Wouldn't that
>>> suggest that they were at odds and therefore not peaceful?
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tel_Hai
>> 
>> There was a very small Jewish population during the time the Ottoman
>> Empire controlled the are. Meanwhile the Brits were giving it to the
>> Arabs, French, and Jews sequentially. If you want to know why the area is
>> so screwed up look at perfidious Albion.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
>> 
>> Britain originally tried to give the Jews Uganda, but, no, it had to be
>> the real estate mentioned in their tribal legends.
>
> I'm sure they would have done a much better job of running Uganda than 
> Idi Amin did.

I doubt it. They would have probably emptied the country by selling the 
population as slaves. The Jews were the main slave traders during U.S. 
Colonial days. A fact not mentioned often.

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