alt Hacker NewsThey have been reluctant to give up their homeland, you mean. Yes, resistance to occupation and genocide is usually to some extent violent, because the occupier is extremely violent to begin with.
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FunnyUsername • last Saturday at 7:47 PM
Sharing the land with another group of people who are also from the region would not be "giving up their homeland".
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They never actually had sovereign control over the land. It was controlled by Romans and then by the Turks and then by the British and when the British left it was basically up for grabs.