Comment on This letter from "Friends of Zion" my grandmother received today

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think ultimately the conflict is way more complicated than many people are willing to admit. Hamas hates Jews so Israel can’t really let down its guard. However, they probably shouldn’t be gunning down anything that moves either. There really isn’t a good solution but that’s something that people really don’t want to hear. It is much easier to align with one side.

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  • Genius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Israel is dropping bombs on Gaza and telling the civilians whose families are murdered that it’s in the name of Jewish sovereignty. No wonder some Palestinians hate Jews. Israel is telling them to.

    Stop killing their babies and their mothers, and they’ll stop joining Hamas.

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you familiar with chickens and eggs?

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      • Genius@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes. The first chicken egg was laid by a non-chicken reptilian ancestor. And the cycle of violence between Israel and Palestine began with the 1948 Nakba, the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing operation which ended with 78% of Palestine’s land occupied by Israel.

        Give it back. There are people alive today who remember being forced to flee from their homes by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba. Let them go home.

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  • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There really isn’t a good solution but that’s something that people really don’t want to hear.

    Actually there is a good solution, you just don’t want to hear it. Free Palestine.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s good solutions, and there’s easy solutions. They just don’t align. It’s just those with power prefer the latter over the former, cause it helps them keep that power. Their end goal also generally isn’t peace…

    Which is really what this post is about. It’s about the tactics used (by “both sides”) to vilify their enemies and galvanize their base. To create extremists and reactionaries who think little and act a lot.

    The real rub is those parties, the “good guys” and the “bad guys” (interchangeable depending on which power player we’re talking about) are vastly outnumbered by the people caught in the middle. If they stopped reacting and started thinking, those power players would lose their momentum.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Algorithmic social media and targeted advertising aren’t helping either. I’m glad to be here having this discussion.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think they’re just another kind of echo chamber people use to espouse views.

        Until people change the way they express themselves, and open themselves to different ideas, nothing will change. Moving to a different social media tool because people think similarly to oneself there doesn’t expand horizons or change perspectives, if anything it narrows them.

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