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Every time I read some history about Palestine/Israel and the surrounding area I'm like WHAT? and also reaffirmed that should absolutely not spout uninformed opinions about such an old and complicated conflict. With that said, spouting some uninformed opinions:
Anything related to colonialism is by definition the fault of the Brits. Let them solve it. https://t.co/kUEHWUsEvz
I sympathise with peoples desire to have a safe home, the Palestinians living there and the Jews right after the Holocaust. Do I support the military group beheading babies or the one firing on medics? Fuck that, they all suck.
I don't have a honest idea how to solve this mess, but the discourse could stand to be more high decoupling IMO. You can support a free Palestine without endorsing terror attacks, you can support Jews living in the promised land without creating an apartheid state.
I'm always a bit puzzled by the colonialism takes tbh. They have a point that the state is rather recent and artificial, but it's not like the Jews are strangers to the land. Isn't there this whole book about them hanging out in the desert making matza and stuff...
Thinking about what indigenous means is actually kind of messed up. Everything is a result of people traveling around and fighting. But some kinds of traveling and fighting are considered almost illegitimate.
I saw someone call Gaza an open air concentration camp and it got me thinking about the collective trauma of the Jews. Idk it somehow makes sense to me. Like a child rejecting but being shaped by how they were raised. How to process that in a more healthy way idk.
I can't really relate to fighting for my country tbh. If this patch of land were ruled by France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, I don't think I'd really care. An almost orthogonal concern is if the government changes to be unfavourable to my way of life. I'd probably just immigrate.
I keep reading that half the people in Gaza are under 18 and isn't that kind of notable and insane by itself? Is the life expectancy 0? Did all the old people die or immigrate? Is it mostly families with children or independent youth? How? Why? Searching...
Wtf, not only are there no old people in Palestine and is their life expectancy lower, the median age of Arabs in Israel is also 10 years lower than Jews. That's crazy. https://t.co/QjQiDew9De https://t.co/3iPMRGaMFM https://t.co/OKRZCdlmAZ
hmmmmmm https://t.co/JuS0TKXNlF
Yay more history, fascinating stuff https://t.co/sY1afSZXoF
🤔🤔🤔 https://t.co/vKv87tnHXF
So aiui the Philistines were Greek settler colonists who were wiped of the earth after which the area was just some empty desert in the Ottoman empire that fell under British rule after its collapse where a part was at some point named Palestine to annoy the Jews
Meanwhile the Jews have been there for thousands of years, with the Holocaust causing a huge influx of immigration and a lot on unrest leading to today. Idk seems more nuanced than Palestine being colonized by Israel.
No idea if any of this is true but it's an interesting narrative counterweight to the free Palestine narrative we hear so often. (Source: eigen QT) https://t.co/AHPTYLs3Eg
Pacifist to Zionist pipeline is running at peak capacity https://t.co/mct2v3bMJ4
re: moving israeli jews elsewhere this was my position for a v long time! like if you want to live like this ok i guess but why?? and why should it be anyone else's problem? oct 7 and the following events changed this for me-- https://t.co/EtOZqreBiw
No serious answers afaict https://t.co/kdKJatiYBm
Getting the impression that IDF somewhat knows what they are doing, trying to hit military targets. Can't fault them for hamas basically trying to ensure maximum collateral civilian casualties https://t.co/NMOTwVHN9Z
Still pondering https://t.co/xTemHS0skB
i leave it to the reader to ponder the relative ethics of - israeli airstrikes not intended to kill civilians but which nevertheless have that effect, and - hamas rocket attacks that are intended to kill civilians but which mostly fail owing to hamas' incompetence
Makes my blood boil https://t.co/Q1Hc2Lgb0L
I think a pivotal moment for me was when hamas rocket fell in the parking lot of a hospital and they accused Israel of genocide, that set the bar for interpreting anything coming out of gaza. The more hysterical the reports get the more I think "unfortunately people die in war"
As I said in the first tweet, WHAT?! https://t.co/n28SkE5mnd https://t.co/IvQHdT9Shu