| It's counterproductive to bathe ourselves in outrage over mistakes that cannot be rectified when there are problems today that could be solved, or at least improved on, by calm diplomatic negotiation, if either side could distance themselves from their hurt feelings long enough to cool off a little and be realistic. Getting everyone riled up over the injustice of it all pushes this process into the future and benefits no one. > I guess they look analogous? If you squint? Feelings have a way of being irrational, but ignoring them exacerbates problems rather than solving them. > I mean, for one thing, saying that establishing Israel was a mistake is not the same as saying that Israel should be dissolved. No, but it doesn't bring anything to the table either, other than to make things emotionally charged and raise the stakes. > Finally, while it clearly would not work to dissolve Israel at this stage The idea that dissolving Israel was ever on the table is absurd. You can't just march into someone's country and dissolve it because you don't like how it was founded. > the problems with that plan do not significantly intersect with the problems of genocide. I'd like to know how that could possibly be true. It's quite a stretch for me to imagine that when the leadership of Israel's enemies call for "the Zionist entity" to be pushed into the sea they have something else in mind. |
If you want to have diplomacy in the middle east, it is absolutely crucial that we first acknowledge that creating Israel there was a mistake. Not doing so is just continuing to say "fuck you" to Palestinians. We need to say "look, putting Israel here was a mistake, but it's here now and we have to deal with this."
>Feelings have a way of being irrational, but ignoring them exacerbates problems rather than solving them.
If, whenever someone disagrees with you, you feel like you're talking to Hitler, you're going to find that your feelings get ignored a lot. There is simply no way to have a productive conversation without ignoring feelings like that.
>The idea that dissolving Israel was ever on the table is absurd.
Are you taking offense to my mention of dissolving Israel after you brought it up?
>I'd like to know how that could possibly be true. It's quite a stretch for me to imagine that when the leadership of Israel's enemies call for "the Zionist entity" to be pushed into the sea they have something else in mind.
Ugh. So now what you're saying is that when someone mentions that putting Israel there was a mistake, you immediately attribute to them the positions of Islamist extremists. How do you ever expect to have a rational discussion when you can't stop thinking in kneejerk feelings?