Framing Israel

The Sad Red Earth ^ | A. Jay Adler

[ventanax5]

It is inevitably so that when two parties are in protracted conflict, neither will be faultless in conduct. Wrongs will be committed, misbehavior will be rationalized, and the sense of one’s own righteousness will excuse even long-term, strategic misdirections in course. The first two of those categories are why political settlements of disputes cannot come from attempting to argue to resolution the “original” wrong: there are always wrongs and Rashomon complexities to grasp onto to make one’s case. The latter is why the Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank and Gaza was such an historic error. Israelis would be happy – even I, inconsequentially, would be happy – never to need argue the same historic counter claims and charges again. There are coincident claims to land. I do not say conflicting claims because conflict is a product of mental attitude: there need not be conflicting claims to the land of ancient Israel, of Palestine, but there are coincident claims. They are either warred over, negotiated to settlement, or endlessly debated in pursuit of some undefined, ultimate judgment of the inherently superior justness of one’s cause. The last may continue up until the moment a settlement is reached.

[ExTexasRedhead]

IMO, this Regime is made up of Kapos and miscellaneous hardcore anti-Semites; case closed except for the rest of their enemies list. Are you on it?

[SunkenCiv]

why the Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank and Gaza was such an historic error

I agree -- it was a historic error to permit the ethnically undifferentiated Arabs, most of whom are koranimals, and a good many jihadists or other form of terrorist, to settle in Judea and Samaria. Thanks ventanax5.

[SJackson]

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