Well, you can't .. it's reality.
And yet people do. What I mean is A lot of people voicing support for Palestine here in the US only see the conflict as oppressors versus the oppressed.
What they fail to take into account is the fact that from the perspective of many Middle Eastern Muslims, including many powerful leaders and organizations, this conflict is just the latest chapter in a holy war, a jihad, and that any compromise with Israel would be a subversion of God's will.
Even if Israel were to give back every acre of land Palestinians feel entitled to, even if they were to cease the hostilities completely right now, even if Isreal bent over backwards to come up with some sort of arrangement that the Palestinians would find acceptable, do you really believe any peace achieved would be permanent?
Personally I doubt it.
We all have beliefs, even if they are secular.
The main point, is that one side is not automatically right, because of the religion/belief system
that they follow.
That's the point: try explaining that to Hamas.
Nations rise and fall .. sometimes they have the moral high ground, and sometimes they don't.
The only thing that could have solved the Middle East cauldron, is if the US had taken their
role as supporter of Israel with greater observation of world opinion.
It's too late now .. Trump 'sealed the deal', and gave strong signals that the Palestinians would
Could you explain that to me? I'm not disagreeing with you, it's just that I haven't gotten that far yet.
I've heard claims that the Abraham accords, which Trump helped broker, were one of the most significant steps forward to facilitating peace in the Middle East in quite a while.
Bearing in mind that's so far I've only heard this from Trump supporters and I haven't looked into any of it myself.
not have any say over their future, dismissing the UN and that it will always have "ironclad" support.
Biden has not, and cannot change it.
There is always a reason why things happen.
Well, when it comes to world politics there are always a myriad of reasons, many of which the man on the street can't understand or will probably never know about.
Several times squared when it comes to the Middle East crisis.
This is the objection I was making: It seems to me that everybody I've talked to so far and most of what I've read is coming from people who are only interested in acknowledging those aspects of the conflict that support their position.
I live in a country full of people who for the last couple of generations have been raised on action films and video games and have come away from all that with this view of the world which sees it as populated by clearly defined good guys and bad guys/ villains and victims/ oppressors and the oppressed. And we all think that we can tell who's who in the first 5 minutes of the movie.
Realistically, the world is full of ordinary people just trying to survive and who are willing to do pretty much whatever they feel like they have to in order to achieve that.
I really don't believe that the Muslim world would ever allow Israel to exist peacefully in the long term. Do you?
And if that's the way it is where would you have them go?
History has shown that there's no place on the planet that's ever been completely safe for the Jewish people.
Or put it this way: If, ultimately, they've decided that the safest place for them to is in the middle of a desert surrounded by enemies, including many calling for their complete destruction, I think that tells the whole story right there.
And it actually is the safest place for them in a lot of ways, mainly because their sovereignty allows them to defend themselves.
Now if I've gotten any of that wrong and you'd like to help me with my education I would welcome it.