Some thoughts. #politics
1. Peaceful protests do not guarantee a lack of consequences. Ask all the Black Americans and their allies from the '60s.
2. Peaceful protests involve tearing down systems, not targeting minorities who may share a religion as the target.
3. You can't colonize your ancestral homeland, at least not in the same sense as Europeans colonized the New World.
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4. What Hamas did was terrorism and unconscionable. They are still wrong.
5. You can distinguish citizens from what their elected leaders are doing.
6. Netenyahu is committing war crimes in Gaza against the civilian population.
@sfleetucker true !!
@sfleetucker As my younger friends say, this is "based".
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All of this is heinously complex and hard to express. I suspect most folks can disagree in good conscience about specific actions and outcomes.
The section of the Middle East in question has been a battleground of multiple cultures and ethnicities for at least 3000 years. There are no "simple" answers to who should have what.
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