Believe it or not, it is possible to publicly defend Ukraine, be against the long-standing brutality that Israel has dealt to Palestinians, and also be horrified about the thousands of years of injustice that Jews have faced in history.
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2023
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Personally, it's hard to agree with either side when there are very clearly religious motivators. Both sides have done things that are clearly wrong. It's not about people vs state, or people vs foreign state, it's always framed as Jewish vs Muslim. It's hard to imagine a future where each side does not stop until the other is wiped out. It's hard for people of different religions to live in harmony when the state is so intertwined with religion. Israel gets a lot of international support because at least they have a relatively stable government.
It's also hard to imagine people will live in harmony when one side literally enforces an apartheid regime on the other side.
Agreed, but again, both sides are not innocent here.
I genuinely share this view, while also having doubts about it. There's still much I need to (re-)learn about this conflict, but I think both religions coexisted peacefully in that area for centuries. The current conflict might have much to do with colonialism-like European nations drawing borders in other countries, assigning people to lands, without fully considering who they are and what they want.
If nothing else, Zelensky knows he has to toe the American policy line. I don't blame him, really. It's self-protection.
Tbf to him, there's a significant difference between taking their own land back between Ukraine and Palestine
When Ukraine fighting back against illegal occupation they didn't purposely target the civilian while Russian is the indiscriminate one.
Hamas's goal is to take their land back while also trying to wipe Jew off the map. Them parading a woman's naked dead body tells it all, they're as savage as the Israeli that treat Palestinian as sub-human. All far right Muslim across the globe hate Jew because of what Israel does for decades.
If tomorrow Putin suddenly gave back all occupied territories including Crimea, Ukraine will stop. If tomorrow Netanyahu gave back all occupied territories, Hamas will not stop until Israel did not exists.
So yeah, for Ukraine vs Russia, one side is the terrorist. For Palestine vs Israel though, both side is terrorist.
When Ukraine fighting back against illegal occupation they didn't purposely target the civilian while Russian is the indiscriminate one.
Eastern Ukrainian civilians and Russian minorities since 2014: Am I a joke to you?