Come on, man. Do you think we all woke up on Oct 7 and learned there’s a conflict in the middle east? I’ve lived in Haifa for many years. Does it appear when we talk about Oct 7 escalation that we are disregarding the hundred years of disastrous fighting that preceded it? All I’m saying is let’s give some more charitability to the people we are engaging with. That’s all.
Now we’re getting to the actual issue: You talk about this conflict as if it were some kind of external event like the eruption of a volcano. It’s not disastrous fighting, it’s an ongoing effort to colonize the Palestinians‘ land and eradicate the Palestinian people as a whole, while also appropriating their culture & heritage to give the impression that this whole colonial project is much older than 1948.
That’s my issue with what you’re saying. Being respectful is imperial in discussions, but it’s counterproductive to be charitable towards people who are willfully ignorant about the power dynamics and the roots of this conflict (again, colonialism, nakba).
If we want to talk about actual peace and actually moving on, the discussion has to start there and not with choosing team Israel or team Palestine as if this were a football match.
Come on, man. Do you think we all woke up on Oct 7 and learned there’s a conflict in the middle east? I’ve lived in Haifa for many years. Does it appear when we talk about Oct 7 escalation that we are disregarding the hundred years of disastrous fighting that preceded it? All I’m saying is let’s give some more charitability to the people we are engaging with. That’s all.
Now we’re getting to the actual issue: You talk about this conflict as if it were some kind of external event like the eruption of a volcano. It’s not disastrous fighting, it’s an ongoing effort to colonize the Palestinians‘ land and eradicate the Palestinian people as a whole, while also appropriating their culture & heritage to give the impression that this whole colonial project is much older than 1948.
That’s my issue with what you’re saying. Being respectful is imperial in discussions, but it’s counterproductive to be charitable towards people who are willfully ignorant about the power dynamics and the roots of this conflict (again, colonialism, nakba).
If we want to talk about actual peace and actually moving on, the discussion has to start there and not with choosing team Israel or team Palestine as if this were a football match.