Comment by dijit

I would love to sit here and write a comment about how youre absolutely right.

But, I empathise fully with Israel and also with the Palestinian people.

On Israels side you have what amounts to a large motivated but not universal contingent of people who will literally slaughter themselves to make you look bad on the world stage, pulling out long protracted altercations where the intent is clearly to provoke the most disgusting outcome and whom have a history of invading, slaughtering and rioting. Sometimes bringing in half the Muslim world to do it.

I would be fucking terrified.

But for the Palestinians, you have an interloper, stealing the best of your ancestral lands, relegating you to tiny torrid stretches of impoverished city because they claim that they “don't trust you” based on nothing but your accident of birth. living every day knowing that this tiny population of privileged people who dont look like you at all and are so heavily financed that they live significantly better lives on your land. Meanwhile hearing constantly that they continuously kill your countrymen. For all you know: for the crime of existing.

I’d be pissed too, and I wouldn't let up either.

Both sides feel like the victim, its easy for us to sit here half a world away and conjure up idealised scenarios. But Israel is scared of the entire middle east and having an irate and catastrophically motivated population bent on its eradication and tries to handle it the best it can.

Palestine is scared of being obliterated and is outright hateful towards what it considers oppressors.

Trust is hard earned and fragile, and there are external actors involved that would like this tension to go on indefinitely.