There are two sides to this conflict and they aren't Israeli and Palestinian. The two sides are reconciliation or fight to the death. There are Israelis and Palestinians on either side, and in safe places like Canada we need to be fighting like hell to support the people on both sides who are aiming towards reconciliation. If you're active posting or discussing this topic, ask yourself whether your commentary is helping find a path to justice and reconciliation or is engaging in cheap vilification as a way of marshalling support for your chosen side? I'm incredibly frustrated seeing people in Canada with no stake in the conflict engage in hawkish boosterism ('from the river to the sea') for irredentist war. If Palestine runs from the river to the sea, who guarantees the security of the 7,000,000 Jews there? Is the idea just screw them because their grandparents should have fled somewhere else? Does that mean that another generation of Israeli and Palestinian children should be sacrificed in the hopes that finally Israel can be destroyed (or perhaps, from Iran's perspective, it's enough that it be seen as trying to destroy Israel)? Note that I also care deeply about the lives and safety of the 7-8,000,000 Arabs in the conflict--I have no time whatsoever for the view that peace can be solved through Israeli military domination or through expulsion of the Arab population.
Brave post, well articulated, well thought out.
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