| EVERYBODY should always chose one's own children, no matter how many other people would die instead. This is the essence of human nature and it would be absurd to ask anything else to someone. However, I don't believe this has nothing to do with zionism and/or israel. In general most people I know generally agree on the sentiment that Jewish people should have some form of safe state. Most disagreement actually arise from differences in the situation presented in the blog post : - What are exactly "people like you" ? Trying to define a "people" is very different from "my children". Many consider the distinction is wildly arbitrary if you remove religious definitions.. - What should be the actual boundaries of the land an why is it not possible to live together ? In particular when settlers are killing people in the west bank, destroying their homes and displacing them, how is this not exactly the same situation in reverse (the argument of the blog is that israel is the ONLY land, and it is literally the argument of the film "no other land" about Palestine last year) ? - For the most cynical, is the conflict and the security issues are being weaponized by right wing religious dudes, who don't really want peace but expand the land. At the end of the day I don't think the Israel / Palestine conflict is really "special". Many groups have been fighting over land for reasons that didn't make sense at all some times (skin color / language spoken / size of skulls between african tribes ?!).
This one lasts longer because of religion and that religion tend to last in time because they stick to the intemporal idea of god. Everybody want its own case to be special, but this type fighting is sadly 'classic' human nature. |