Comment by catlover76
2 years ago
I don't like grinding the historical axe--I think it's a dumb thing people do in this conflict. And I favor the right of your country to exist, largely on the basis that no country has any "right" to exist and so the country's continued existence in itself establishes any such alleged right. That being said, it is not like Israel was sitting there minding its own business, and its not like its own establishment was bloodless, and its not like its creation was a peaceful event for many of the Arabs it displaced.
Again, none of that, to me, vitiates the right of an Israeli person to live peacefully in Israel, but I don't take kindly to anyone's nationalist fantasy, and I find it absurd that people continue to trade in the kind of simplistic tribal patriotism that just regurgitates their ethnic narrative.
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They do! Israel is a thriving, prosperous society, world-leading in many ways. And the only way that society can persist long-term is by making peace with the Palestinians. (My own adopted home, the United States, is also a thriving and prosperous place that leads the world in many ways. And we also had to make peace with the people we wronged in the past.)
Perhaps they should allow Palestinians to move there.
Neither Jordan, nor Syria, nor Egypt want Palestinians, but Israel should welcome them? Lol. I think if they were wise, they'd really focused on making a proper state.
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We can all see your failure to engage with what I actually said, and we also all know that the fact that we have successful and prominent Black people in American society, including a former president, does not mean that there isn't a lot of racism and discrimination against a lot of Black people in the US. You must think the rest of us are stupid.