10-10-2023, 06:52 PM
(10-10-2023, 06:36 PM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: How educated are you on the conflict? We could discuss nuances if you'd like, but I don't have time to give an entire history of it.
Historically? Rather well. As for nuance, that could take up the better part of a year and still scratch the surface.
Quote:Or, to clarify what I mean, to what degree do you believe the people who resided in the area prior to the 20th century are responsible for the Jewish people's expulsion from the area centuries (millenia?) ago?
The exact same amount that current residents of the US are for the expulsion of the native population over a century ago.
But this isn't the real question at hand. What is is the the Palestinians are inextricably linked to Hamas, if by nothing else than their refusal to sever any link to them on their own. As brutal and heavy handed as the IDF can, and has, been their actions are dwarfed by what's been committed by Hamas the past five or so days. If you refuse to condemn that, and by you I mean the Palestinians, then you have negated any sympathy I might have, or ever would have, for your cause.
