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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
THIS war is not about religion. Not that the conflict isn't helped by religion. When you have a Jewish state, and a Muslim population on the other side then of course religion will play a factor but I don't doubt for a second that if both groups were atheists that this would still be an ongoing problem.
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If these two groups were secular we wouldn't have any issues at all. There would be no urge from the Islamic folk to wipe out the Jewish state. There would be no concern over Jerusalem. There would have been no threats by terrorist groups, no fatwas decrying Israel no room for Iran to run a proxy. There would be no Orthodox Jews calling for settlements because of their disregard and care of a Muslim community.
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
The U.S didn't drop a nuke on the Japanese because of their religion
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That's because there was no 1,000 year old blood feud between the Christianity and Shinto.
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Originally Posted by Arya Stark
and Israel isn't dropping bombs on U.N shelters because of what religion they believe in, so yes it does play a role but it's not the main reason for the conflict.
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It is very much so the main reason that this conflict is happening. The back and forth between the IDF and Hamas and the civies caught in between are just another branch on the tree sprung up from this ugly, ugly seed.