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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I have lived through 61 years of the Israeli Arab conflict, it has always been polarizing because traditionally Israel was the wests proxy and Egypt and Syria were the Soviets, the PLO and Yasser Arafat were the darlings of the left wing in the west, Europe particularly, seen as the same as Che Guevara, wearing the PLO pink headscarf was common in student unions when I was a teenager, of course in those days Islam wasn't radical, the PLO was barely religious
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I can see how it has always been polarizing. But this time it seems much more visceral. Graphic accounts of atrocities but now a lot of visual aids. Regular citizens posting pics and videos of their first hand accounts is going to challenge what we all feel.