israeli-palestine conflict
trying to understand. cards are not endorsements - just opinions to process
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israeli-palestine conflict
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
People ask me all the time if I am "pro-Israel" because I am a Jew who has lived in Israel, and my answer is that being "pro-Israel" or being "pro-Palestine" or being a "Zionist" does not properly capture the nuance of thought most people do or should have about this issue. It certainly doesn't capture mine.
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Isaac Saulx.comWhat are the best books about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict? And more generally the modern history of the Middle East region?
andrew chenx.comSo it’s useful to ask what absolute power would reveal about Israel and Hamas. In other words, what would each side do if it had nukes and its enemies didn’t? Based on Hamas’s history, and its charter, which calls for the total obliteration of Israel, we can be confident they’d nuke Tel Aviv. And yet, if Israel had nukes, they wouldn’t nuke... See more
Gurwinder • Debunking Myths About Israel & Palestine
there is no moral equivalence
Free Palestine? No thanks! (The Israeli perspective) Français / Español / русский / Deutsch / عربي
youtube.comThe deepest insight for understanding the lenses people use to understand the world comes from @KlingBlog in his superb, concise book, The Three Languages of Politics. Simple idea. Liberals see the world as a struggle between oppressor and oppressed. Conservatives see the 1/
Russ Robertsx.comWhen 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