well, I've been avoiding this thread like the plague for a while ( the whole forum actually cause off season here is whacked ) and I know emotions are high as this is a very loaded subject
But with that said, I do respect some of the posters here and value their opinions to some degree regardless of where they stand on the matter, so I will just ask something thats been on my mind and I hope to get some insight into it.
Well, why is this subject such black and white for you guys? and why pepole views on it are so poloraizd?
Even more importantly, taking personal involvment out of the equation, why does this issue gets more cover and attantion then any other horrible thing pepole do to each other? are mass murders and ethnic clensing in africa less pressing matters ? Mankind is fucked up, nothing new here so why does this issue harbors so many personal emotions when it pales in comprasion to any other fucked up shit out there ?
Im not going to try and debat the conflict as its pointless, pepole are so set in their views about this but thats part of the the reason I ask myself those quastions. Again the quastion is purely in the level of the "grand schem of things" and not about who started, who is right or what's the solution.
On a more personal, I sincerly hope the suffering of civilians on both sides will end soon, and it is indeed much greater on the palastinian side unfourtently.
firstly, because the raison d'etre of israel is the epitome of the absurd, a russian claiming divine right to a land as foreign to him as mars is.
Secondly, unlike those 'african' conflicts which progress quite 'organically', as in event sets off chain reaction of old score setting then either the end of the barrel a gun or people just getting tired end it. But no Israel is guaranteed to exist no matter what, even if all of its neighbors dont want it there, or it lost that war that should have ended it(had it not been for US involvement)
thirdly, the morphing over the years of israel into a regional bully that does whatever it wants with impunity and regardless of international opinion be it assassination or full on military action, it's turned the UN into an even bigger joke than it already was. Irony is of course a big part of the argument presented for why it exists in the first place is the infamous UN partition plan.
Lastly, gaza, for a people so familiar with ghettos and being stepped on by the powers that be to do the very same to another is quite honestly revolting.
Forgive me for saying this, but i feel most israelis are deluded, deluded into thinking that they will ever live in peace on their terms and narrative. It's like that decent guy who f'ed up and has to continue f'ing up to cover for that first major mess he made all the while thinking things will be alright...