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.
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.