He hired engineers from Gaza and the west bank to try and foster peace through work and his daughter was murdered on Oct 7th. He still hasn’t given up on hope.
When you asked me what I would do if 1200 of my people were killed, and I mentioned that 17 thousand of my people were killed, you immediately switched to Hamas. It’s as if you are incapable of empathy. If I was Israeli I could shove my tragedy in the face of everyone and force them to see me as a victim, but not Palestinians. My grandmother left during the Nakba, her whole hometown is now a dirty stinky Israeli settlement. And yet I cannot go to every UN resolution and demand that Israel be condemned. In fact, if I do that, I’ll probably be called antisemetic.
I think Palestinians are very much conceived as the victims today world wide. And I think they are playing that card well and I don’t blame them for that.
I didn’t want to go to “who started it” because it’s a useless debate. The cycle has been going for decades with casualties on both ends.
I’m very much capable of empathy. This whole thread is about the Israel Hamas war so I steered the discussion back to that topic.
I am very sad about the current state of affairs, there’s immense suffering on both ends and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. I don’t hate Palestinians. As an expat Israeli, every time I see a Palestinian abroad we usually become friends and naturally have more in common.
I can see you are washed with hatred, I don’t blame you.
I can tell you many stories about Israeli peace activists that were affected by all this as well, like this guy for example: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/israeli-exec-who-hired-palestinians-in-tech-boom-still-hopes-for-peace-while-mourning-slain-daughter-c8af06c8
He hired engineers from Gaza and the west bank to try and foster peace through work and his daughter was murdered on Oct 7th. He still hasn’t given up on hope.
If you only choose to hate, you continue to cycle
When you asked me what I would do if 1200 of my people were killed, and I mentioned that 17 thousand of my people were killed, you immediately switched to Hamas. It’s as if you are incapable of empathy. If I was Israeli I could shove my tragedy in the face of everyone and force them to see me as a victim, but not Palestinians. My grandmother left during the Nakba, her whole hometown is now a dirty stinky Israeli settlement. And yet I cannot go to every UN resolution and demand that Israel be condemned. In fact, if I do that, I’ll probably be called antisemetic.
I think Palestinians are very much conceived as the victims today world wide. And I think they are playing that card well and I don’t blame them for that.
I didn’t want to go to “who started it” because it’s a useless debate. The cycle has been going for decades with casualties on both ends.
I’m very much capable of empathy. This whole thread is about the Israel Hamas war so I steered the discussion back to that topic.
I am very sad about the current state of affairs, there’s immense suffering on both ends and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. I don’t hate Palestinians. As an expat Israeli, every time I see a Palestinian abroad we usually become friends and naturally have more in common.
I think Palestinians are the victims of systemic Israeli oppression and I think people who deny that are either genocide deniers or uninformed.