Palestinians
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Palestinians is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between March 30, 2022 and December 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “But since Palestinians don’t have all the normal rights in Israel, they are”; “And end with Palestinians Struck dead by falling aid”; “It contains two million Palestinians, separated from Israel”. It most often appears alongside Belgium, Israel, US.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: March 30, 2022
- Last seen: December 10, 2024
Appears In
- Who Gets Self-Determination?
- Verses On Five People Being Killed By A Falling Package Of Foreign Aid
- Highlights From The Comments On Prison
Related Pages
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- Belgium (2 shared issues)
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- Israel (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- ACT (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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- American Republicans (1 shared issues)
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- AP (1 shared issues)
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- Asterisk (1 shared issues)
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- Bahamas (1 shared issues)
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- Blackshoe (1 shared issues)
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- Bram Cohen (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
As best I can tell, international law on this question centers around a UN-backed covenant which says that “all peoples have the right to self-determination”. So are Texans/Kurds/Scots/Palestinians a “people”? International law makes no effort to answer this question. Presumably Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks Ukrainians count as a people, and Vladmir Putin isn’t so sure.
Inline links: covenant
Other sources have defined “a people” based on exclusion from existing political structures. So since Texans have all the normal rights in the US, they’re not a separate people. But since Palestinians don’t have all the normal rights in Israel, they are. But this suggests that if Putin invaded eg Finland, and then granted the Finns whatever the normal rights are in Russia, Finns would stop being a people.
The best laid plans of mice and men Are oft unwisely laid And end with Palestinians Struck dead by falling aid
And so we sighed, and multiplied And after that, we prayed For souls of Palestinians Struck dead by falling aid.
People call Gaza an “open-air prison”, and the comparison makes sense. It contains two million Palestinians, separated from Israel by a wall, barbed wire, and military guards. Security isn’t infallible (see 10/7), but the breach required a near-state level of resources (including funding/arms/supplies from Israel’s enemies) plus a rare catastrophic blunder on Israel’s part - and all it did was get a few thousand Gazans over the wall for a few hours.