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After world war 2 we absolutely adjusted the borders of countries and there was no issue. We could have easily given them a chunk of Northwestern German coastline. By 1955, when occupation forces left, it would be a done deal.
but the way they split it was at least culturally coherent, they only took the ethnically different parts from germany for example, the only exception I can think of is southern tirol, where ethnic austrians where put into italy
also no one had to resettle, because they ended up in countries where people would share their culture and speak their language mostly, now if you took a big chunk of land where people lived, they wouldn't really want to give it up
Huh. You don't say. They wouldn't want to give up their land. It's almost like dropping a bunch of settlers somewhere isn't going to result in flowers and unity...
I'm not really sure they'd have been down with being Germany's weaker neighbors, even if that was probably the only "fair" place to carve a nation from.
Nobody forced them to move to Israel after World War 2. Nobody would force them in a more ethical project either. "Carving" a nation out of people who didn't fuck around and had already been there 4,000 years certainly wasn't the answer.
Modern day Palestinians are not the coastal Philistines of the middle bronze age. They're the descendants of the Arab colonizers of the 7th and 12th centuries.
Which, for clarity's sake, does not deny them of a right to their land.
Those people are absolutely still there. The Arabs took anyone willing to convert to Islam.