History of Norway (Partition 1947?)

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1. This has nothing to with Norwegian history, it’s a pro-Palestine graffiti, asking the viewer to imagine Norwegians losing the same amount of land that Palestinians have since the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. If you search for maps of that, you’ll see the similarity

2. I think this might be a pro Palestine demonstration comparing Norway to Palestine.

3. There is a lot of pro-Palestine street art in Bergen. In November there was a street art festival with over 70 pieces on display about the oppression of the Palestinians. Many of the greatest friends of Palestine are street artists. I don’t remember who made this piece. It is a very smart piece that gets the point across in an efficient way. I wonder if it hangs on Høyden?

4. Imma get so much flak for this, but if we had attacked Sweden 3/4 times unprovoked…

5. The problem with this map, and the framing of the conflict as the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” is that it forgets about the entire rest of the Arab world. Ultimately, the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Middle East is between a tiny minority demanding a tiny sliver of the majority’s land (which used to be theirs, and which would be the only place on Earth they would be a majority) and the majority, insisting that they will never yield an inch to any minority. The fact that the majority (Sunni Arabs) are split into a bunch of different countries doesn’t change that fundamental dynamic. This map, and countless like it, are no different from making a map of Ukraine “eating up” the Donetsk and Luhansk Republics as an example of Ukrainian “imperialism,” while leaving Russia out of the map.

   The divisions between Arab countries are mostly arbitrary, and the divisions between Syria, Jordan and Palestine entirely so. They are 100% the result of imperialists in Europe drawing lines on a map. There are regional distinctions between Syria, Jordan, and Palestine, but ultimately, they’re all countries where a huge majority of people speak similar dialects of Arabic, practice Sunni Islam, and have broadly similar customs and history. It is lunacy to cut Palestinian Arabs out from their broader regional context. The only reason there are Palestinian refugees today, instead of Syrians or Jordanians of Palestinian descent, is because Arab countries have deliberately denied citizenship and freedom to Palestinian Arabs in order to maintain refugee camps as a rhetorical weapon against Israel.

   Narrowing the lens of maps to only the territory of Mandatory Palestine (an arbitrary province created by a distant empire) is a political choice, and that choice is to align yourself with decades of Arab propaganda that fundamentally reject the idea of Israel’s existence as a state.

6. It is obviously showing the spread and decline of nynorsk (red) compared to the takeover of bokmål (blue).

7. oh i was thinking it was the warmest parts of Nor way or something

8. Same happened with Hungary in 1920 June, due to the Versailles pact, Trianon. This remember you to be glad it was not your country which was unfairly dismembered.

9. Palestinianzzzzzzz