israeli-palestine conflict

DAY 4: THE WAR ON ISRAEL - BARI WEISS REACTS Fear grows as Hamas threatens to execute hostages, says they will show online. 1,000+ killed and 3,400+ wounded. A must watch interview with the founder of @TheFP - @bariweiss - on the atrocities coming out of Israel. We promise… Show more

It’s amazing how perfectly this conflict encapsulates the spiritual deficit of modernity, how every action may only be taken if it is in compliance with the ‘opinion of the world’, and how both sides only exist still because the mustered the support of actual kinetic powers by making those powers feel sorry for them or ethically appeased by helping... See more

Sam Harris articulating why "using human shields" versus "being deterred by them" tells you "everything you need to know about the moral imbalance between Israel and her enemies." TRANSCRIPT: The truth is that everything you need to know about the moral imbalance between Israel… Show more

When I was a clueless young leftist I too believed Israel was the oppressor and Palestinians were the oppressed, because that’s what everyone around me was saying, and my empty mind was a vacuum that sucked it all up. Once I escaped my echo-chamber, and began to objectively assess the facts, I realized just how unfairly Israel has been demeaned —... See more

Yemen, my poor country, has decided to bomb Israel. My poor country is more concerned with killing Jews than feeding its starving population. This is the problem with the Arab world. Blind unforgiving hatred. Wrong choices. And psychopathic... See more

Either side can easily be portrayed as the underdog, because victimhood is limited only by imagination. So we must consider the question not in terms of who is most oppressed, but who is most reasonable? Who is most willing to compromise, and whose goals will, overall, benefit Israelis and Palestinians most?

Hillary Clinton on the Israelis and the Palestinians today on The View. Covers everything from Hamas to humanitarian pauses to Yasser Arafat to Anwar Sadat.