I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I’m an idiot.

  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Are the real qualifications a caliper set and an unwillingness to talk about what they used to do before they got a position in the west German military?

    • Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      No, the qualifications are people who have studied that conflict for decades and journalists that have been to Gaza and Israel themselves.

      I value their opinion significantly higher than the opinion of people on Lemmy that haven’t taken 5 minutes out of their day to read up on the conflict.

      • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
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        8 hours ago

        And all these people think Israel are the good guys? I wonder what their opinions about apartheid South Africa were at the time.

        Israel was explicitly founded as a settler-colonial project, you can look up quotes from famous founding zionists.

        “You are being invited to help make history … it doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen, but Jews … How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”

        Theodore Herzl to a Rhodesian representative