Overly simplistic and one-sided presentation here, but you do acknowledge you aren't super informed. The Palestinians want Israel's land (called "right of return.") and their elected government in Gaza has sworn to wipe Israel (and its Jewish citizens) from the map. If you knew your neighbor was intent on murdering you and your whole family and that there was nothing you could do to defuse the situation (I mean, nothing short of letting them take over your house), what would you do? See? Not so easy to solve for you either, is it?
Palestinians want their own land back. If I stole my neighbor’s land and house and then insisted they leave their own house and land so I could have that too, then yeah, they’d probably want to murder me. You’re falling on the same arguments I’m very informed on, and heard nonstop growing up. But that’s a narrow and conservative view. Saying “all Palestinians want to murder all Jews” is exactly the rhetoric my article is fighting against, and wildly wrong. My country has elected multiple people in my lifetime who have said and committed atrocious acts; does that mean I stand for everything they did or said myself? Absurd comparison; I invite you to take in more informative articles from other (real) journalists: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-history/618896/
Well how far back are we going? Israel had that land for thousands of years before the Palestinians moved onto it. So what is the statute of limitations on right of return exactly?
If Palestinians are electing Hamas instead of the other parties, then they are endorsing their genocidal platform. I'm sure Israel would like to deal with the Palestinians who don't want that platform, but they are a minority and not in power.
I say again - what is your plan for how this would all work? Because the devil is in the details, so making broad pronouncements about how we need to give Palestinians their land back is great virtue-signaling, but not much else.
Overly simplistic and one-sided presentation here, but you do acknowledge you aren't super informed. The Palestinians want Israel's land (called "right of return.") and their elected government in Gaza has sworn to wipe Israel (and its Jewish citizens) from the map. If you knew your neighbor was intent on murdering you and your whole family and that there was nothing you could do to defuse the situation (I mean, nothing short of letting them take over your house), what would you do? See? Not so easy to solve for you either, is it?
Palestinians want their own land back. If I stole my neighbor’s land and house and then insisted they leave their own house and land so I could have that too, then yeah, they’d probably want to murder me. You’re falling on the same arguments I’m very informed on, and heard nonstop growing up. But that’s a narrow and conservative view. Saying “all Palestinians want to murder all Jews” is exactly the rhetoric my article is fighting against, and wildly wrong. My country has elected multiple people in my lifetime who have said and committed atrocious acts; does that mean I stand for everything they did or said myself? Absurd comparison; I invite you to take in more informative articles from other (real) journalists: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-history/618896/
Well how far back are we going? Israel had that land for thousands of years before the Palestinians moved onto it. So what is the statute of limitations on right of return exactly?
If Palestinians are electing Hamas instead of the other parties, then they are endorsing their genocidal platform. I'm sure Israel would like to deal with the Palestinians who don't want that platform, but they are a minority and not in power.
I say again - what is your plan for how this would all work? Because the devil is in the details, so making broad pronouncements about how we need to give Palestinians their land back is great virtue-signaling, but not much else.