Comment by jameshilliard

> How about you and I stay out of it and let international organizations whose job it is to monitor this have their say? Are you ok with that?

Why would I blindly trust the conclusions of "international organizations"? Especially ones that have shown themselves to have very little integrity?

> You trust Amnesty and the UN?

The same Amnesty international that has shown to have serious issues with bias across multiple conflicts?[0][1]

The same UN which has thrown away essentially all of their credibility when it comes to anything related to Israel?[2]

Obviously I would never blindly trust these organizations.

> The sign of a brainwashed person is to equate this occupation with Islamic terrorism.

There is an occupation because the Palestinians have refused to negotiate a final peace agreement, Israel clearly can not unilaterally end the occupation as they did in 2005 with Gaza and expect a positive outcome.

> Jews and Muslims have lived together peacefully for hundreds of years prior to 1948.

Where have they lived together peacefully as equals for hundreds of years prior to 1948?

> There has been nothing but respect between those two religions going back for as long as one can remember.

There's a long history of conflict between Jews and Muslims throughout the years, obviously in recent years it has been worse in a lot of ways.[3][4]

> The change is Zionism. That’s what the problem is, not radical Islam or radical Judaism. Zionism != Judaism.

So Jews wanting to have a state where they wouldn't have to live as second class citizens[5] and have a right to self determination was the problem? Why would it be so hard for Muslims to accept the existence of a Jewish majority state when there are plenty of Muslim majority states?

After the holocaust it's entirely reasonable that Jews would reject being forced to live as a minority in a Muslim majority state.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/28/amnesty-intern...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/ngos-anti-...

[2] https://unwatch.org/2025-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1517_Hebron_attacks

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1834_looting_of_Safed

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhimmi