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"This land is mine."

Recently, South Africa's Miss South Africa was barred from attending a beauty pageant in Israel because South Africa's ANC government believes Israel is an "Apartheid state". 

I'm a believer in solving a problem then moving on & not wading in a problem for longer than is necessary. In any case, I believe simple logic should apply over religion in cases like these because if religion were to hold more sway in this Israeli versus Palestine conflict, this conflict could go on forever or until one side, eventually, wins. By then, a lot of people would have lost their lives over this "holy land". 

I believe religion itself was based on commonsense more than divine instructions. Muslims & Jews don't eat pigs because before modern day technology & medicine, eating a pig could get you nasty diseases & parasites; "Thou shalt not lie" was simply because lies are naturally bad (even for atheists) & have bad outcomes most of the time when told & so on. 

As a black person wherever you are in the world, if you have a problem with Israel then you naturally have a problem with the Liberian state because Liberia was created by the USA as a land for their freed slaves. Likewise, modern-day Israel was created by Britain as a land for historically expelled Jews. I do not see a problem with that, I still believe in the reinstatement of Mpofana chiefdoms in the KZN midlands & south Durban myself. 

So here we have a group of people that were previously expelled from their land & now have an opportunity to return & make it work but are the borders correct? And how does what they do in their internal affairs concern the international community? They are now a sovereign state & the international religion is based on ancient Israel & Canaan, not modern-day Facebooking & Tik-Toking Israel. 

I feel many conflicts are caused by incorrect borders & multiculturalism so decide for yourself if the Palestinians are in their correct ancestral land & Jews are in the correct ancestral land with the maps I found below. Maybe when the borders are correct, there'll be less conflict. 

The Israel of the ancient world that we all know.

Modern-day Israel?
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