This whole thing is a good reminder that maybe the solution to the formation of an ethnocratic state in the 30s and 40s that caused death and displacement of tens of millions of people wasn't to... form another ethnocratic state.
The people of Gaza and Israel today were put in a manufactured situation which was going to inevitably lead to mutual hate and violence. I think for true long lasting peace, the ethnocracy has to be dismantled, and the idea of Israel as a "home for the Jews" needs to die. It needs to be a place that is "home for people with Israeli values" minus the religious stuff.
It makes me wonder if the entire thing was borne out of antisemmitism. When there is war or famine in Ukraine, Ireland, etc., immigrants are welcomed with fairly open arms across the world. If displaced Jewish people were welcomed into other western nations after WWII, rather than what happened, how different does the world look?
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