Comment by nielsbot
2 years ago
It's not muddled. I doesn't have to be that 100% of the people living on Gaza are refugees from Israel for the current situation to be an atrocity. I am also not saying every Israeli is responsible for that atrocity.
I also don't think Russia/Ukraine is comparable to Israel/Gaza. I find it hard to believe Palestinians living far from Gaza/West Bank/Middle East would have anything but total sympathy for those in Gaza... but that's just a feeling.
Thanks for the link.
I certainly agree that the current situation is atrocious, in many respects. Certainly what is happening in Gaza right now is an atrocity.
I’m mainly saying that calling that opinion “Pro-Palestine” or “Pro-Palestinian” seems problematic. There has been no particular shortage of screaming matches in the US in which people accuse other people of being horrible for not being correctly pro- or anti- the right things, and I think this encourages factionalism where none need exist.
My point re: Russia and Ukraine isn’t that that situations are analogous. It’s that one’s heritage may be quite different from where one is now, what views one has, where one wants to live, etc.