Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Thoughts on the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis.

What is the most frustrating part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to debate?

 

One of the many frustrating aspects of the Israel-Palestinian question that one routinely experiences as a supporter of Israel and a peaceful resolution, is that many of those who you are arguing with aren’t doing so in good faith. This is all too obvious. The well is poisoned from the get go rendering a great deal of dialogue meaningless.

These voices realize fully well that Israel has nothing to gain by strikes against civilian targets but will continue to insist that this is the ‘real’ rationale for the strikes. Hamas or Islamic Jihad on the other hand benefits by maximizing civilian casualties on both sides and therefore fires rocket indiscriminately at Israeli targets (Jewish and non-Jewish). It is in no way demonstrating a moral equivalency to the Israeli response that is directed at the Hamas’s military apparatus with incidental civilian casualties.


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