• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    12 days ago

    The same reason you don’t know where Moldova is. It’s a small place with a ethnicty you’ve never heard of.

    Palestine is is something you hear about on the evening news like every other week, so everyone knows what it is.

    It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.\

    If you asked a Chinese citizen what Palestine is, they’d probably have no idea what you were talking about.

    • Fleppensteyn@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      12 days ago

      Why would anyone not know where Moldova is. It’s next to Ukraine and they have the Russia-loving Transnistria, which I’m sure has been relevant with the war and all

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      41·
      12 days ago

      It’s been a consist zone of conflict for the western powers and in the middle east for over 2000 years.

      Uh… no? For the most part pre-20th century Palestine was a backwater nobody really cared about (the Crusades being the big exception).