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And it doesn't fit with the conservative Christian view of the nation consisting purely of those that fled Germany. The truth is simply more complicated than ei
by init2null 1y ago
And it doesn't fit with the conservative Christian view of the nation consisting purely of those that fled Germany. The truth is simply more complicated than either extreme is comfortable with.
That being said, the ancestry and the history doesn't change the actions being committed today.
- alephnerd 1y ago> That being said, the ancestry and the history doesn't change the actions being committed today Yep. But it adds nuance, which has been lost in discourse. This is fundamentally an Eastern conflict that can only be resolved by Mizrahis and Arabs. Westerners converting Israel-Palestine into a culture war are doing more harm than good, because it breeds resentment from both sides, as both view the West as the lackey of the other.
- apical_dendrite 1y agoI don't think it changes the facts about what is happening, but I do think it changes how we think about the roots of the conflict, and about how (if) it gets resolved in the long term.