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Liz's avatar

Thank you for this. I have been feeling this as well since 10/7 and I haven’t really known how to process it. I felt so much anger that day. And admittedly, it hasn't subsided. That doesn't mean I don't feel sadness at the horrific death toll of innocent Palestinians as well. The bottom line is that the media wants to divide us when it is possible to have empathy for both, while also understanding the histories of both parties.

I think something that so many people that are hardliners on this issue (on both sides) don’t understand is that many things can be true at the same time. You can support both groups of people without supporting their leadership.

But nuance seems to be lost on most. Its easy to pick a side without even trying to understand the plight of your 'enemy'.

Therein lies the problem.

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Arrr Bee's avatar

Diaspora Jews who feel the urge to be token Jews for anti-Jewish racists can figure out in their own head what they personally gain from their virtue signaling of throwing Israeli Jews under the bus. It’s not done for any moral reasons, so spare me. It’s not just October 7 these faux Jews ignore, it’s history in it’s entirety - the 138 suicide bombings of the second intifada, the lack of real interest the Palestinians have had to sign any peace deal, it’s Palestinian terrorism long before “the occupation”, it’s the fact that Palestinians have always had the goal of a genocide and ethnic cleansing for Jews since before the state of Israel, it’s the fact that when Arabs were the majority they behaved worse than racist Whites did in the south to the black minority - endless pogroms and lynchings of Jewish refugees by Arabs.

The problem progressive Jews have is with reality, and being gullible fools for the far left and Islamists.

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