Biden now calling for Israel to pause???

[Dill]

(11-06-2023, 06:51 PM)pally Wrote: seems to me that not supporting basic human rights for Palestinians is how new terrorists are made.

Luvnit represents a large segment of people who see the world only in its extremes. In the case of this current conflict... If you don't support Israel 100% you must support terrorism.  If you don't support the actions of the Israeli government you must be anti-semitic.  If you care about what happens to Palestinian children you must not care about Israeli children.  IMO, that is a very unrealistic view of the world and how most people think

Agree with the bolded.

And what you are describing used to be called "black-and-white" thinking, a cognitive inability to walk and chew gum at the same time.

"Both sides did bad" breaks a circuit. One side must always good and the other always bad. If there is evidence the good guys could be in the wrong, or even a question that bad guys could be in the right, it will set off an internal struggle for rationalization to regain the strict good/bad equilibrium. 

"Sympathy for innocent civilians on both sides" or even refusal to deny anyone's humanity is reduced to "siding with THEM"--the bad guys, who should only be considered "savages" or "vermin" or human disease who have always brought their own doom on themselves. 

It's not possible, from this perspective, to support UNIVERSAL human rights.