[kelipso]

How can you say it’s a conspiracy theory when you see tons of verified news articles with all of these Western politicians so supplicant to Israel and Israeli politicians?

What’s surprising is that this not a bigger part of the conversation.

[quickthrowman]

Perhaps they have an understanding of the history of the region that goes further back than 2022, to truly understand this conflict you have to go back a couple hundred years.

If you read history and understand that Jews are persecuted and murdered in every country that is not Israel, what are they supposed to do?

Should we blame the Ottoman Empire for not industrializing earlier and losing the technology race to Europe and collapsing? After all, if the Ottoman Empire hadn’t collapsed at the end of WW I, Palestine would likely still be a Muslim territory.

That’s how far back you have to go to find a good starting point to explain how the conflict got to the point it’s at now.

[kelipso]

Every genocide has a justification that makes complete sense to the people carrying out or abetting the genocide.