This region is so complex. You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad. I just stopped thinking I would ever understand it. I‘m so sorry about all the „standard“ people who just want a „standard“ life that is safe and reliable. Those people without an agenda on both sides.
It is complex and yet it isn’t. There are understandable psychological and historical causes for the current state. It is not black and white. But nothing is. We just want to make things to fit nice boxes.
If you want to understand it, you need to understand radicalization and how it applies to MENA including Israel. Actions do not come from the vacuum and people are messy. Every person has an agenda.
At the same time, in this specific situation, there are what according to well-established parameters amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. While there is terrorism committed by Palestinian groups, these crimes are largely committed by Israel. It might be that if the power imbalance were a little less we would see similar actions from the Palestinian state. But it is not.
Just in the last week, we have seen apartheid, ethnic cleansing, what could be genocide, collective punishment, embargo and cutting vital supplies to the area you are occupying. This list is not exhaustive. This is univocally wrong.
The most complex part is not understanding it. The most complex part is solving it.
This region is so complex. You can’t easily point on who‘s the good and who’s the bad. I just stopped thinking I would ever understand it. I‘m so sorry about all the „standard“ people who just want a „standard“ life that is safe and reliable. Those people without an agenda on both sides.
Hint: It’s always the side perpetrating genocidal settler-colonialism that’s the bad-der one (by far), okay?
Okay understood. You might have read that I excluded those with an agenda.
I guess it doesn’t fit in a yes/no thinking if there‘s a third option.
And what would this (alleged) “third option” be? This?
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It’s not hard to understand which party is settlers committing genocide, and which party isn’t.
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It is complex and yet it isn’t. There are understandable psychological and historical causes for the current state. It is not black and white. But nothing is. We just want to make things to fit nice boxes.
If you want to understand it, you need to understand radicalization and how it applies to MENA including Israel. Actions do not come from the vacuum and people are messy. Every person has an agenda.
At the same time, in this specific situation, there are what according to well-established parameters amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. While there is terrorism committed by Palestinian groups, these crimes are largely committed by Israel. It might be that if the power imbalance were a little less we would see similar actions from the Palestinian state. But it is not.
Just in the last week, we have seen apartheid, ethnic cleansing, what could be genocide, collective punishment, embargo and cutting vital supplies to the area you are occupying. This list is not exhaustive. This is univocally wrong.
The most complex part is not understanding it. The most complex part is solving it.
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People need to point on who’s good and who’s the bad, don’t they? Makes life easier.