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  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    4 days ago

    Yes, would you be interested in starting a separate thread for further discussion? I’d also like to clear up my fuzziness. As a US-ian educated before education was quite as bad as it is now, I wouldn’t have known about Herzl’s attitudes that influenced his work, nor the Balfour agreement, had it not come up for an online discussion that came up with regard to Israel and Palestine in the late nineties or early aughts.

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      4 days ago

      I feel like if we started a thread discussing this it would be like two AI’s hallucinating against eachother. I’m also not very interested in Herzls backstory, for the simple reason that he saw the Palestinians the same way (or even worse) as the Europeans treated the Jews.

      Herzl himself also was a very rich dude from a rich family and he certainly didn’t face any of the suffering or antisemtism which other Jews faced at the time.

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        I feel like if we started a thread discussing this it would be like two AI’s hallucinating against eachother.

        I certainly can understand that, while also wanting to get to the bottom of this! I’ll probably start a new thread about it, but not right now.

        Regarding his back story, I find it immensely interesting in that he was racist all around.

        Herzl himself also was a very rich dude from a rich family and he certainly didn’t face any of the suffering or antisemtism which other Jews faced at the time.

        Oh wow! You writing that struck like lightning! Maybe his racism against Jews and Palestinians boils down to classism.