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  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlLost and found
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    There are multiple forms of colonialism. The term settler colonialism’ is relatively new.

    Settler colonialism is a logic and structure of displacement by settlers, using colonial rule, over an environment for replacing it and its indigenous peoples with settlements and the society of the settlers.

    Practically every example you will find is Europeans getting on a boat and killing natives. The most famous example is Manifest Destiny also known as America.


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    The Muslims conquered land and replaced its government, they did not murder and replace their entire population. This is why countries like Somalia are filled with black people who are Muslims and not Arabs.

    Mohamed Salah has Egyptian ancestry. He is not a random Arab Muslim claiming that Egypt was Arab.

    Settler colonization and replacing everything with ‘superior white people’ is a rather modern European tradion
















  • it’s Lebanese but Israel occupies it and claims it’s Syrian. But Syria claims it’s Lebanese. Don’t ask me why Israel is occupying land which they claim belongs to Syria.

    The Shebaa Farms, also spelled Sheba’a Farms (Arabic: مزارع شبعا, Mazāri’ Šib‘ā; Hebrew: חוות שבעא Havot Sheba‘a), also known as Mount Dov (Hebrew: הר דב, romanized: Har Dov), is a strip of land on the Lebanese–Syrian border and currently occupied by Israel. Lebanon claims the Shebaa farms as its own territory, and Syria agrees with this position. However, Israel claims the territory belongs to Syria. This dispute plays a significant role in contemporary Israel–Lebanon relations.