Maybe Cory Doctorow?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d3f506e0-ce0d-4121-b644-0b2a384d6fd5.jpeg

Not the land, but the underwater natural gas deposits. https://www.workers.org/2023/11/74864/

On Oct. 29, Israel announced that it awarded 12 licenses for exploring additional offshore natural gas fields to six companies, including British Petroleum and Italian energy giant Eni. These awards show that Israel has no intention of letting the genocide it is carrying out against Gaza’s people interfere with its ongoing theft of Palestinian resources.

If we had 8 fingers, or 3 fingers, or 15 fingers, we would still be using base 10. It’s just that the value of “10” would be different each time