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[bubosquared]

When are those %$?* Palestinians going to stop murdering Israelis and just let them live?
(tingilya; LJ)

Um, you know, that conflict goes both ways. Yes, the Palestinians kill Israelis. And then the Israeli army goes into the Palestinian areas and kills some people. And then the Palestinians retaliate, etc. etc. This is not a case of the poor Israelis being randomly murdered by the vicious, evil Palestinians. This is a conflict that goes back at least sixty year, and even longer if you're really gonna dig back.I did a huge-ass essay on this when I was sixteen, yo. I know about this conflict.

It's horrible, and sad, and has claimed way, way, way to many lives over the course of sixty years, but the reason it's been going on since then is precicely because there is blame on both sides!

And now I'll stop myself before I launch into a veritable diatribe on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and why it's still not resolved. Nobody wants to hear that, right? Thought so.

Comments

[darksong.livejournal.com]

I think we all want to like Israel, but at the same time, they just sort of went in and made a country in land they only had a historical claim on...I don't think if I gathered up a bunch of my friends and I don't know, hiked up to Canada and said "hi, we're a new country" we'd be too welcome.

I'm not saying Israel doesn't have a right to exist, but I can see it from the Palestinians' perspective of "hey, we already lived here!"

I actually think Israel is being more offensive than the Palestinians. Neither side is right in their behavior, no, but I think Israel is looking much worse than they have in the past.