Yeah and you´re totally sane when you ignore what happened before that, of course. Extremists from both sides have been trying to put a genocide on the other to claim the soon-to-be-independent territory for more than a hundred years
And it’s worth remembering that all of this was kicked off by a large scale terrorist attack perpetrated by Hamas. This is insane when Israel was killing Palestinians years before Hamas even existed.
The Nakba happened 40 years before they existed.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
brot@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This is a great example why we should be really careful discussing history here. Yes, the Nakba did happen. But what did happen before the Nakba? The arab attack on Israel right after it was founded. What did happen before that? The arab revolt from 1936-1939. What did happen after the Nakba? The deportation of Jews from nearly all arab countries. What did happen after that? Several wars, intifadas, terror acts from both sides and so on. There can’t be peace when you use history like that. Both sides can point to atrocities of the other side and continue fighting - to take your words, palestinians were killing Jews even before Israel was founded and Israel was attacked several times with a clear genocidal intention and there are people living in Israel who were ethnical cleansed out of arab states.
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like the saying “an eye for an eye makes the while world blind” fits here.
However, also,
— Desmond Tutu