It seems to me like a really complicated situation, to be honest. I think that you can feel for both sides of the conflict and also blame both sides of the conflict. Hamas -- assuming that the reports of what they did were true -- committed unspeakable atrocities and expected... What? That they could just go "just kidding!" and go back to the way the things were a year ago? On the other hand, the way Israel is waging war reminds me an awful lot of the war in iraq, and the way that the US waged the war in Iraq it was disgusting to me -- the news was bragging about how the Americans had blown up some building because they thought Saddam Hussein was inside, and then it turns out he wasn't inside and all they did was kill a bunch of innocent people.
Another thing that for the complicates things is the fact that we are looking at a clash between two quite different civilizations. Well certainly imperfect, Israel represents western civilization and at least to some degree hold those ideals. By contrast, Islamic civilization is extremely at odds with the ideals of Western Civilization. To give just one example, Western Civilization has largely abhorred slavery and even in the short time that it engaged in the African slave trade it knew that it was doing something against its values which was one reason why it eventually ended. By contrast, the Muslim world doesn't see a problem with slavery as long as it is of non-muslims. It is a historical fact that the Muslim world has been a primary consumer of slaves historically and there are open slave markets in the Muslim world today, such those which can be found online.
So it's just an unspeakably complicated situation and it seems to me that going all in on picking a side is sort of absurd. For me, I'd like to give Good vibes to all the good people who are unjustly facing bad things, and I don't think that any group has a monopoly on that right now. And contrasting the good vibes to the good people facing injustice, there are multiple groups pushing the conflict, and groups that don't care about innocents that get hurt, and I certainly don't harbor any Goodwill towards them.
It definitely seems to me though that there is enough good on each side and enough evil on each side that going all in on either just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I don't think that you can have parades and marches of people chanting "it's complicated"
Another thing that for the complicates things is the fact that we are looking at a clash between two quite different civilizations. Well certainly imperfect, Israel represents western civilization and at least to some degree hold those ideals. By contrast, Islamic civilization is extremely at odds with the ideals of Western Civilization. To give just one example, Western Civilization has largely abhorred slavery and even in the short time that it engaged in the African slave trade it knew that it was doing something against its values which was one reason why it eventually ended. By contrast, the Muslim world doesn't see a problem with slavery as long as it is of non-muslims. It is a historical fact that the Muslim world has been a primary consumer of slaves historically and there are open slave markets in the Muslim world today, such those which can be found online.
So it's just an unspeakably complicated situation and it seems to me that going all in on picking a side is sort of absurd. For me, I'd like to give Good vibes to all the good people who are unjustly facing bad things, and I don't think that any group has a monopoly on that right now. And contrasting the good vibes to the good people facing injustice, there are multiple groups pushing the conflict, and groups that don't care about innocents that get hurt, and I certainly don't harbor any Goodwill towards them.
It definitely seems to me though that there is enough good on each side and enough evil on each side that going all in on either just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and I don't think that you can have parades and marches of people chanting "it's complicated"
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