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    Isn’t that the standard line when it comes to people settling land with pre-existing tenants?

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      Idque apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset.

      Gaius Cornelius Tacitus; c. 56 AD

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        10/10 reference, nicely done. Israel also turned Gaza into a desert and called it “peace”. it’s uncanny how little things have changed since Tacitus!