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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Finally,
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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@sfleetucker As my younger friends say, this is "based".