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Originally Posted by jayswin
I'm actually surprised by the level of support for what Israel is doing here on CP, relative to real life interaction where it is basically unanimous disgust and anger towards Israel.
The only thing I can think of is that there's so few actual posters posting in this thread, it's more 10 or so going hard, with a 50% split between sides. It's insane to read absolute garbage from pointman, nagawaza skoot etc, that would have everyone looking over in disgust/shock in real life social settings.
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The problem is that these are people for whom supporting Israel is a part of their identity. So they have to morally justify Israel’s actions to themselves, because if they didn’t, their identity would be in jeopardy.
You can’t argue with that and you can’t change their minds because what’s easier - admitting that you’re wrong about Israel and you’ve been supporting the aimless killing and apartheid of scores of innocent people, or continuing to justify it to yourself morally because “Israel has a right to defend itself”?