Bro. Great Britain is responsible for this whole mess: it’s called the Balfour Declaration.
rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
So the UK is now officially pro-genocide?
Good to know.
hopesdead@startrek.website 1 month ago
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Well, yes and no. It’s true we started it. But then we had bigger fish to fry and handed it off to the UN. Who could have dissolved the whole thing and returned it to the previous state, but chose not to.
wpb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If I set fire to your house, and then I turn to you saying “ooh boy this is a hairy problem, you better take care of it”, I am entirely responsible for your house being on fire.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 1 month ago
For that to be a useful simile you’d need to use some kind of reversible fire.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ever heard of the East India Company?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It the Irish potato famine?
febra@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haven’t they always been pro genocide?
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ever heard of Churchill and what he (and other British people) did in India? He starved millions to death. Look up Bengali famine.
Almacca@aussie.zone 1 month ago
:gestures broadly at history: