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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
You're not sure what I mean by "land redistribution"? Well, here's an example, the millions of Palestinian refugees living in camps. Whose land are they getting?
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Genuinely speaking, who knows? My more general point is that there is a tendency of imagining politics is all the act of governments and people in threads like this basically outline what they would do if they were supreme rulers of the universe. I am saying that politics is much more the constant interaction of billions of individuals and is ongoing. It's slightly irrelevant what I think should happen about Palestine from the perspective of a white boy from South London because my input is minimal. However, if I was an Israeli I would certainly want to move towards a negotiated settlement where Israel ceded a lot of their land to the Palestenians. In the longer term I'd want to move towards a single state, but I doubt that's forthcoming.
To answer your question more directly - I imagine much of their land will come from Israel, some of it will be other Arab countries and some of them will settle elsewhere. But that's just a guess, not a moral analysis.
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And don't be insane. Your social changes are no more happening right now than the planet Mercury is taking tango lessons.
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Sorry, I was evidently unclear. I am not saying "we're winning" or anything like that. I am saying that I don't find it practical to talk about history a series of explosive events. I mean that society is evolving all the time. There isn't going to be a revolution day where all land issues get sorted out. It's going to take time. I don't really think of things "moving in the right direction" on that level, it's not a big Risk board with Capitalists vs Communists. It's a constantly evolving situation and every single nanosecond is what we (as moral agents) should be evaluating. That's what I mean by it's starting right now.