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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s almost like this conflict has been going on long enough that people understand this didn’t occur in a vacuum and that Israel’s actions before and their actions after are going to be nothing to celebrate or side with either.
But thanks. Terrorism is bad. Mind blown.
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This is true in any conflict really. People arbitrarily choose a convenient point in history and draw their opinions from that point. In Europe, that point is usually WW2. If your country was on the wrong or losing side, it doesn't matter what happened before that in their minds. Just recently, there was a big deal about the Ukrainian Nazi in Canada which highlighted Ukraine's collaboration with Nazi's in WW2. Very few people cared that the collaboration didn't happen in a vacuum. It was just that there were Nazis and Nazis are bad, which isn't unreasonable, but that involvement didn't come from nowhere.
It's a similar situation with Israel. The Palestinian terrorists are no different than Nazis. Yes, their extremism didn't develop in a vacuum, but their position is still completely genocidal and evil. Sure, you can point to Israel's hard handed approach, but that approach also wasn't born in a vacuum. It just depend where people want to conveniently cut off history and say that nothing before that point matters.