I didn’t used to understand foreign involvement in wars, like the whole America-Vietnam shenanigans. But I can see why after watching this Israeli Palestine Conflict since birth.

But now it’s like watching two children fighting over who’s sandcastles can be built in the sandbox. And what do we do if children can’t learn to share? You take away everything and no one is happy.

So is that what this is going to come to? Do adults need to intervene to quell the infants?

  • @alvvayson
    45•1 year ago

    It actually started with WW1 when Britain promised both Jews and Palestinians their own state if they overthrew the Ottomans.

    Before that, Ottoman rule was oppressive to both groups relatively equally for a few hundred years.

    WW2 and the whole holocaust thing just turned it from a small problem into a big problem, as millions of European Jews sought a safe haven outside of Europe, leading to the creation of a religious ethnostate in 1948.

    So yeah, Europeans definitely are to blame, but Arabs and Palestinians aren’t innocent either. They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.

    • Devi
      6•1 year ago

      They rejected a perfectly adequate solution by the UN in 1947.

      I mean… adequate to who?