• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    What I don’t get is why?

    It’s not a particularly dense region of resources, nor is it a particularly enjoyable climate. Like at least Iraq had some oil or something, otherwise you get a desert. Yay. Desert. What are we going to do with more desert?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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      13 days ago

      There are certainly economic incentives and parts of the country are quite nice, but I think, at the end of the day, the core incentive for Netanyahu and his goons is just ethnic supremacism. “We must show these dirty foreigners who God has granted this land to”