An actually modest proposal
Blame the British! The origin of the fighting in Israel-Palestine is the fault of fucking British Imperialistism exploiting Socialist Zionism to maintain control of the Middle East before packing it up and leaving chaos in their wake. Same deal as the Partition. Same deal as Iraq. Same deal as the Troubles. Revisionist and Religious Zionist definititely picked up the torch. But Socialist/Liberal Zionism is a very complicated subject (speaking as an Anti-Zionist Jew who attended Hebrew school—there was a ton of “Being Jewish Means Supporting Israel” messaging while studying for my bar mitzvah. I read Said when I was 18 and I realized all the lies. But renouncing part of your identity is hard for anyone and I empathize with Liberal Jewish Zionists who find it difficult). The big difference between the Partition and 1948 is that a bunch of surrounding dictatorships didn’t invade India-Pakistan. I can understand how that would be a pretty traumatizing formational experience for the founding generation and make prosecuting all the Zionist terrorists and war criminals difficult. That doesn’t make it right but when terrorists can get away with killing refugees from the Shoah in 1943, how likely is it that a new government is…
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