r/JewsOfConscience May 19 '24

History Ben-Gurion debunking himself that the indigenous Palestinians are the Jewish nation who weren't mistreated by Arabs. Later accusing them for "being forced to avoid their faith".

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u/DuePractice8595 May 19 '24 edited May 19 '24

Zionists constantly insist that all of the Jews just magically up and left and/or were expelled but that’s more projection than anything. Historically, it’s an outlier for an empire to conquer land and also remove the entire population and replace them with their own settlers.

Typically the land is conquered so that you can tax the population and have access to their resources and labor.

A land without people is virtually useless to an empire that is headquartered 1000 miles away where they already have their own civilization built up.

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u/Weak-Doughnut5502 Reconstructionist May 20 '24

Didn't Rome previously do it when they destroyed Carthage?

The Jews weren't expelled by Rome when it initially became a Roman client state and later province,  but generations later after the Great Jewish Revolt and the later Bar Kochba rebellion.  Those wars also resulted in the destruction of the second temple and the razing of Jerusalem.

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u/Glad-Degree-4270 Post-Zionist May 20 '24

Records indicate that Jews were largely deported and were completely barred from Jerusalem but still had a presence throughout the region, albeit a reduced one.