• takeda@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    83
    arrow-down
    20
    ·
    6 months ago

    What I find depressing is that most of the Arab world thinks so, but the majority of people from Gaza don’t.

    Arab world: https://i.imgflip.com/41f829.jpg

    It clearly shows that Arabs don’t care about fellow Palestinians suffering, and the only thing that matters is that they fucked up lives of some Jews.

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      56
      arrow-down
      13
      ·
      6 months ago

      Arabs aren’t one people. They’re many different tribes. They’ve been fighting as long as the historical record. So them not caring about the Palestinians is not surprising but obvious.

    • guacupado@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I’m curious how much help all these Arab countries were sending to the Palestinians.

      • Psychodelic@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        I thought Arab countries were the only ones sending aid to Palestinians - ignoring the US which of course is playing both sides

    • Gromit83@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      6 months ago

      All arabs remember Jordan September 1970 so nobody trusts the Palestinians one bit and rather prefer they die against the Israeli than their own citizens. They got expelled to Lebanon after Jordan and sparked civil war there for decades and then finally getting expelled in 1991.

      So if you wonder why the neighbouring Arab countries don’t care. There’s your answer.

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    81
    arrow-down
    35
    ·
    6 months ago

    Nobody hates Palestinians more than other Arabs. This was never about them, it was always about hate for Israel.

    • hark@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      42
      arrow-down
      23
      ·
      6 months ago

      I dunno, maybe the people genociding them hate them more.

      • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        We see through your tribal bullshit. Y’all hate each other more than my aunts, but you hate Jews more. When people like you say Israelis need to leave the middle east, we know which Israelis you mean. Certainly not the Arabs living in Israel.

      • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        38
        arrow-down
        14
        ·
        6 months ago

        Recall that it was the US who had to twist Egypt’s arm into accepting refugees. Black September was a thing, and it resulted in several Arab countries refusing to take Palestinian refugees.

        It’s important that we discuss this. Hamas and other extremist groups take advantage of the kindness that is offered to Palestinians, and they cause civil wars and assassinations. If I remember right, they murdered the king of Jordan.

        The Muslim extremists are a problem for everyone, and they make life much harder for Palestinians.

        • chitak166@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          14
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          Does that mean they hate Palestinians, or just refugees in general?

          It seems like the cultures of, checks notes, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are not built around helping those less-fortunate.

        • Thirdborne@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          16
          arrow-down
          7
          ·
          6 months ago

          Handy for Israel to get to exterminate them within their own borders and everyone else is to blame because they won’t take them as refugees. Both those things are bad, but one is at least a bit worse.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            6 months ago

            Oh don’t get me wrong, the blame is backwards. It lies primarily with Israel for killing them. It’s fucked up, albeit less so, for these other countries to refuse to take in the refugees.

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            6 months ago

            Handy for Israel to get to exterminate them within their own borders and everyone else is to blame because they won’t take them as refugees.

            I don’t think they said or even implied that

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          12
          arrow-down
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          6 months ago

          It’s important that we discuss this. Hamas and other extremist groups take advantage of the kindness that is offered to Palestinians, and they cause civil wars and assassinations. If I remember right, they murdered the king of Jordan.

          Yeah I won’t deny that these things are all pretty messed up, but the claim that Arabs hate Palestinians is just wrong, at least from what I’ve seen as an Egyptian. Also I don’t see how Hamas, which was founded in the mid-80s in a completely different political climate, has anything to do with this. The PLO, which isn’t even Islamist, is the one who did these things.

          • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            10
            ·
            6 months ago

            Generalities are rarely true, I should’ve specified. I agree that the statement “Arabs hate Palestinians” is more wrong than it is right. And there are certainly differences between the PLO and Hamas and other militant groups.

            It would be more correct to say that violent militants are using the Palestinians’ plight to take advantage of the kindness of Arab neighbors and then try to take over their societies. And naturally, that has made neighboring countries reticent to take in refugees.

            What is wrong however is seeing a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians as legitimate resistance when they themselves will not take in Palestinian refugees.

            • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              11
              ·
              edit-2
              6 months ago

              What is wrong however is seeing a terrorist attack against Israeli civilians as legitimate resistance when they themselves will not take in Palestinian refugees.

              Unfortunately many Arab people do consider all Jewish Israeli civilians as active participants in Israel’s crimes, but that’s a whole different story. The serious argument that October 7th was legitimate resistance relies on the fact that it was against military targets, with no evidence the leadership ordered anything close to slaughter of civilians. Add in that even after the IDF shelled and shot their own citizens the civilian casualty rate was 66% and the idea that Hamas just passed the border and randomly murdered civilians falls apart pretty quickly. Of course not denying the atrocities that actually happened, but October 7th as a whole was legitimate resistance with an army that’s prone to committing war crimes, not a terror attack with the goal of murdering civilians. This distinction is important because “atrocities were committed on October 7th” and “October 7th was a terror attack” aren’t equivalent statements.

    • gndagreborn@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      I’m really exhausted from all the crises happening across the planet on a daily basis. Its become as average as Tuesday. It’s desensitizing.

      I would love to duck my head in the sand, but that won’t make things any better.

  • chitak166@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    6 months ago

    Considering how the Arab world at large never agreed with the terms of Israel’s conquest, this makes sense.

    • s_s@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      20
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      In the 40s and 50s they all agreed on kicking those same Jews out of their counties, though.

    • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      The Israelis themselves know it but deny it. I am confident that one day sooner or later, Palestine will be liberated like Ireland, Algeria and South Africa before it.

      “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.” — David Ben Gurion. Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      21
      ·
      6 months ago

      Pretty sure jews around the world never agree with the war that was brought to them the moment country was formed.

        • DeadHorseX@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          11
          arrow-down
          14
          ·
          6 months ago

          So was the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

          They’re not going anywhere, and the people who call for the abolition of those countries are nutcases and will always be accurately understood as nutcases.

          Pakistan and India were formed just like Israel was: according to international law and by partition.

          If the Palestinians want a state, they can have one: alongside Israel. Those are the terms. And until they accept that, they will suffer. Sucks for them.

          • platypus_plumba@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            edit-2
            6 months ago

            What? So we’re supposed to live by the same standards we had before globalization?

            So, as a human society we have not evolved to recognize that what happened in the US was wrong and that it happening again is not acceptable?

            Hm.

          • johnlobo@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            arrow-down
            6
            ·
            6 months ago

            Pakistan and India wasn’t the same. it was single nation split in two. the people in it is native. Israel is nonexistent before 1948 and the people were brought from outside. as south African kick out theirs oppressors, Palestinian will do the same. israel is no different than nazi, instead israel are worst.

            • DeadHorseX@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              11
              arrow-down
              5
              ·
              edit-2
              6 months ago

              the people in it is native.

              Some were, some weren’t. Depends how far back you want to go, which wave of mass migration you’re talking about.

              Israel is nonexistent before 1948 and the people were brought from outside

              Except, of course, that none of this is correct.

              First, there’s the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The Jews are the same people.

              Second, Jews maintained a continuous presence in the land of Israel-Palestine ever since then. They are, therefore, indigenous to the land.

              Third, the majority of Jewish Israelis are Mizrahis – Jews from Arab lands who’ve lived there since the Second Temple Period (516 BC - 70 AD), who were forced to flee from these neighbouring Muslim states due to violence, pogroms, repression and the theft of their property.

              We know from numerous scientific studies of Jewish and Palestinian DNA that they’re almost identical, and share a common root, most likely both being descendents of the ancient Canaanites. Here’s a very recent one. There’s almost no genetic difference with ‘European’ Ashkenazi Jews either, because they very rarely intermarried with other faith/ethnic groups. Here’s another from 2015 in Haaretz.

              Palestinians and Jews are basically cousins, genetically speaking, and both are indigenous to the land. Palestinians perceive it as an invasion, and that’s understandable despite not being true. To the Jews, they were returning from exile to their homeland only to find that there were squatters who’d let the place fall to ruin while they were gone, which is also understandable though not true.

              They’ll find a way to live together one day, but it’ll require both sides to accept the rights of the other.

              • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                4
                arrow-down
                5
                ·
                edit-2
                6 months ago

                Judaism is a religion and FYI all Middle Eastern people cluster close genetically. In fact South Arabians cluster closer to ancient Levantines than Zionist settlers. Should you instead give the land to them?

                We already know Ashkenazi are European https://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-european-genes.html

                And are highly susceptible to skin cancer unlike the Palestinians.

                Remarkably, although Israeli Arabs, especially men, tend to work more outdoors, melanoma in this sector is rare compared to that of Jewish Israelis.

                https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-706842

                As for Mizrahis they are from wherever they came from. Yemeni Jews aren’t Palestinians anymore than Yemeni Muslims are Palestinian. Not at all.

                If Jews had a continuous presence then why did Zionist leaders refer to themselves and their project as colonialism? https://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf

                You should read the Iron Wall Essay. In it Jabotinsky clearly states that Zionism is colonialism and accurately predicts that the Palestinians will resist since “all natives resist colonialists”.

                If Jews had a continuous presence how did they come by the hundreds of thousands on ships? There were Palestinian Jews who are indigenous but Judaism is a religion, Jews from France or Morocco are not indigenous.

                If you want to argue that people that haven’t been in Palestine before Zionism are indigenous then you still need to explain how that gives them the right to expel people already there from their lands.

                I have been arguing with Zionists for years, and other than myths and lies to justify their colonialism of Palestine, the only solid argument they ever gave is “might makes right”. I can see Zionists believe in it, Jabotinsky and the Likud clearly do. At which I say it took 132 years to liberate Algeria, it took 7 centuries to liberate Ireland. No one is mighty forever.

                • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  4
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  it took 7 centuries to liberate Ireland. No one is mighty forever.

                  When do you think Canada will be liberated and the indigenous return to power?

  • answersplease77@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    How the fuck did you even interview them? The governments of many Arab countries in this survey would kidnap and jail you indefinitely without trail if you support Palestine in public or on social media, and many other cave in to what they are expected to say. It’s garbage in garbage out

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      30
      arrow-down
      19
      ·
      6 months ago

      A new opinion poll, carried out by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, was published on January 10

      • McDropout@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        23
        arrow-down
        12
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        It’s a Qatari institution with clear bias. Just because it has “Arab” in the name doesn’t mean it represents all arabs. There are many institutions in the middle east with “arab” in the title, they don’t represent us all.

        Just a reminder that Aljazeera is a Qatari state owned channels, and Qatar represented Palestine in the opening for Asia’s cup just yesterday.

        But yea… good journalism.

          • McDropout@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            16
            arrow-down
            20
            ·
            edit-2
            6 months ago

            8000 respondents, given that they’re a fair sample size from each arab-majority country (which I doubt) do not represent what 464 million arabs think.

            That’s 0.0001724138% of the population.

            • Imhotep@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              17
              arrow-down
              7
              ·
              6 months ago

              your comment shows us you don’t know how polls are made

              why not look it up first and only then comment (if relevant)

              • hark@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                6 months ago

                Just like the polls done by those who “know stats” who predicted a clinton win in 2016.

              • Aceticon@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                6 months ago

                Whilst it’s quite amazing just how few people you need in your sample to get a +/- 3% error with a 95% confidence for the opinion of hundreds of millions, that narrow error margin with just a few thousand samples only works if the sample is representative of the population in general, which is unclear.

                Plenty of cases of polls out there that are complete total bollocks because they were taken by calling by phone people in relativelly poor countries were only those in the middle class and above have a phone, and at times when most people were out working, so they ended up sampling an atypical subset of people rather than one representative of the whole society.

                The way the question is posed also influences the results, sometimes quite subtly (the mere order or words or order of questions in multiple-question poll can sway the results).

                So whilst what you said makes sense in response to the previous commenter’s point, there’s a lot more to good polling than merelly the number of samples necessary for a certain error margin in the 95% confidence interval when your sampling is random in a uniform distribution (emphasys on the later, as actually making sure the sampling is indeed like that in practice is often difficult and/or costly)

              • McDropout@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                15
                arrow-down
                19
                ·
                6 months ago

                Maybe include that it is a poll of “~5700 arabs by Qatari institutions” in the title, not “67% of arabs”.

                Misleading title. Sorry to see individuals like you on Lemmy rather than Reddit.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      8
      ·
      6 months ago

      How is the really of an opinion poll painting them as a monolith? It’s literally saying they have different opinions.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 months ago

      This doesn’t seem any different from polling Western countries and writing a title about what the Western world thinks. Doesn’t make me think of a monolith.

    • cuntonabike@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      6 months ago

      In that case, I’m sure you’d have an issue with a publication writing “99% of Europeans think Hitler was bad”, despite it being a bunch of different nations.

      Or, is it “eh white is white” for you?

  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    32
    arrow-down
    19
    ·
    6 months ago

    Why on earth do we accept J Post articles here? It’s literally Israeli propaganda.

  • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    6 months ago

    I’m surprised it is this low.

    Edit: the comments are hell. But what else to except from propagandized westerners that never cared to know from Arabs.

    I wish our leaders had a sense of shame or honour, instead many of them are collaborators.

    “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

    • boyi@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      Not to be pedantic but I’d to clarify one aspect that not many people know.

      He was right, except for one. At least from the perspective of those Muslim Arab leaders:

      Our God is not theirs.

      Islam is an Abrahamic religion, regarded by the Muslim as a continuation of the Abrahamic religions before it. So the muslim regard themselves as having the same god as the Jews and the Christians. Thus, the prophets of the Jewish religion (and even the prophets of the Christianity, Jesus) are also regarded as prophets in Islam. Many of them are mentioned in Quran in good faith. The main difference is the jewish doesn’t recognize Muhammad as their prophet while the Muslim regards Muhammad as the last prophet in addition to those before him.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    12
    ·
    6 months ago

    To me, the crazy thing is that 33% of the Arab world doesn’t think it was legitimate resistance.

    The October 7th attack was clearly terrorism. But to have such a big percentage of the Arab world seem to agree with that, even in such an insanely one-sided situation as the ongoing occupation of Gaza, means:

    A lot of people want peace.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      11
      ·
      6 months ago

      Everyone wants peace for themselves and their allies. What’s important is how many people want peace for the other guy too.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Well, but what I’m saying is that (edit: calling it terrorism) saying it wasn’t legitimate is kind of wanting peace for the other guy too.

        I’d be surprised if 33% of Americans or Israelis thought that the invasion of Gaza was illegitimate. Maybe they would though, I honestly don’t know.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          10
          ·
          6 months ago

          It’s all terrorism, all the way down. Israel throws a volley, then Hamas throws a volley, and so on. It’s depressing.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        11
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Palestinians want to live peace with each other. Israelis are the ones that want to go full Nazi and exterminate all Palestinians because they believe they are the Ubermensch.

        The west bank being terrorized by ZioNazis is all the proof one needs.

        • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          6 months ago

          You shouldn’t take the actions of genocidal, colonizing settlers and generalize them to all Israelis. It’s completely incorrect to suggest that all Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. As small as they are, there are left wing groups that want to find reconciliation and cooperation. And plenty of youth have refused their compulsory service with the IDF.

          It also makes no sense for the Israelis to think they’re superior to the Palestinians – only half of Israelis trace their ancestry from European Jews. The other half have the same ancestry as the Palestinians. They’re all semites.

          You’re far too eager to condemn people by association, who may very well have the same beliefs as you. These are the same logical fallacies that lead to ubermensch beliefs in the first place.

          • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            6 months ago

            As small as they are, there are left wing groups that want to find reconciliation and cooperation. And plenty of youth have refused their compulsory service with the IDF.

            I highly respect people such as Gideon Levy and other speaking out against the atrocities and refusing military service. If all israelis were like that then this conflict would already be over. But most israelis are currently voting right wing governments in power. Most israelis even support the current genocide.

            There were even people killed by Hamas that were peace activists. Which is incredibly sad. But the fact remains that all those good people are completely outnumbered and despite their peaceful activism israel has moved more and more towards full on Nazism the last few year.

            It also makes no sense for the Israelis to think they’re superior to the Palestinians – only half of Israelis trace their ancestry from European Jews. The other half have the same ancestry as the Palestinians. They’re all semites.

            They believe Palestinians are Arabs not Semites.

            • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              6 months ago

              I’m not disputing any of that. I’m just saying we shouldn’t tar Levy and the others with the same brush. And like you said, the people being killed by Hamas are not just the genocide supporters.

              Think about how this conflict is going to end. When we look at the most likely outcomes:

              • Status quo continues, and just kicks the can back down the road until one of the other outcomes

              • Israeli completely genocides Palestinians and colonizes Gaza and West Bank on their bodies. Some survive as refugees, but most of them die. Hamas is mostly destroyed, but its rich leaders in the UAE and similar countries drink champagne and live it up just fine.

              • Enough Israelis vote for a left wing regime that seeks reconciliation, and recognizes they have to move past the history of violence for it to end.

              Odds are, Israel is not going to be destroyed or ended. The best chance of peace relies on the Israelis who understand the power dynamic places the impetus on them to stop the violence. To that end, it’s unhelpful to blanket label all Israelis as genocide supporters. Because if that’s true, Palestine has no hope.

              • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                6 months ago

                How were the Nazi’s stopped? Did we kill every single German in existence?

                Are the Ukranians trying to slaughter every single Russian to stop the invasion?

                israel will never end its genocide voluntarily. If an israeli isn’t supporting Zionism and speak out they are getting arrested. There’s no way to get any political change going in a regime this dictatorial.

                Palestinians are very open to negotiation, but israel is the party holding all the power, and refuses to give the Palestinians a land. The 700.000 in the west bank prove how willing israel is to seek peace.

                There is only one side preventing peace, and it’s israel. Their illegal government must be disbanded, but it doesn’t look like they are going to do it voluntarily.

                • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  5 months ago

                  Do you believe it is realistic to achieve a situation like Nazi Germany, where several countries take control of the government and administer the area for a few decades? Without any subjugation, and with economic aid from the administering countries?

                  If you have a way to do that, I am genuinely interested in hearing it. As long as it seems unviable however, regime change is the best option. Netanyahu’s government failed to protect people from Hamas attack, kidnappings, and their own army killed Israelis. If there was ever a time to foment a change, it’s now.

            • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              6 months ago

              Even if so though, this just perpetuates the problem. This is why the conflict won’t stop.

              Most of Group A thinks that most of Group B are supremacists, and condones the killing of B. The members of B who aren’t supremacists and are killed anyway by association see all of Group A as supremacists who want them dead, so they condone the killing of A, even those that disagree and don’t think that all of B are supremacists.

              This isn’t going to stop until people see each other as individuals. They’ll create justifications to kill each other until one of them ceases to exist. It falls on Israel to seek reconciliation, or this violence is just going to keep going.

              • من البحر إلى النهر@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                6 months ago

                There were multiple peace offers by the Arabs, such as the Arab Peace Initiative 22 years ago. Israel has always rejected a two-state solution.

                Do you think the Irish should have given up on fighting for freedom?

                • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  Just to be clear, we both agree that Israel is the one causing the problem here, and the one that holds all the cards.

                  And unless I’m mistaken, that peace initiative did have a prominent Israeli figure there supporting a two state solution, right? I thought this was when Netanyahu boosted Hamas initially to kill the two state talks and literally kill that Israeli negotiator.

                  My point is that we need Israelis like them. There can be no peaceful resolution unless Israelis want peace – or, at least, want the fighting to stop. That’s what happened with the Irish, isn’t it? They didn’t physically defeat the UK army.

                  Do you see what I’m saying? Even if most Israelis are supremacists, our enemy is not all Israelis. If we blindly kill people based on their countrymen the only solution left is total annihilation.

    • nbafantest@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 months ago

      I think it is interesting how many people think there will ever be peace while Hamas is in charge, or that Hamas will ever let someone else be in charge.

      • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        Nobody in power ever “lets” someone else have it instead.

        On the first part, I agree; both Likud and Hamas are hell-bent on this outcome. If only the one of them would stop giving the other money to keep them both going.

        • nbafantest@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          6 months ago

          Nobody in power ever “lets” someone else have it instead.

          Peaceful transition of power is a cornerstone of democracies

          • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            6 months ago

            I actually hesitated to write what I wrote for that exact reason… but I decided that there’s enough implied threat of everyone else just removing you anyway and you looking stupid and maybe going to prison that you can’t actually call it “voluntary.” Trump tried his absolute very best to simply refuse to go along with the peaceful transition of power and he still got power-transitioned out.

            I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you; I do think a lot of the theater of concession speeches and other trappings that go with peaceful transitions in countries far from Palestine is super important. But I think Trump actually did a pretty good job (so far, fingers crossed) at illustrating that it’s not really voluntary for the departing president to agree to leave.

    • sugartits@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      arrow-down
      16
      ·
      6 months ago

      When you’re defending beheading children as “legitimate resistance” when you should probably take a step back and take a long hard look at yourself.

      And no, before idiots come along and say dumb shit… That doesn’t mean I’m defending Israel’s actions either. It’s possible to dislike both situations.

      • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        19
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        There’s no evidence Hamas beheaded children. IIRC that was a rumor originating from the IDF which remains unsubstantiated.

      • erranto@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        17
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 months ago

        If they had any proof of “Beheading children” they would have submitted to the International Court of Justice. but they didn’t, they haven’t even dared use that sentence. but here your are parroting your Zionist Hasbara Lies and defending a genocidal agenda that have been in the working for over a century

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        arrow-down
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        6 months ago

        This is Zionist propganda.

        No beheaded children nor rapes happened.

        Only some Thai migrant men that got mutilated after they were already shot dead.

    • Vub@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      6 months ago

      What do you mean? The fascist islamist terrorists of Hamas wanted Israel to retaliate? For what reason? I think you give them too much credit, they just took an opportunity to kill as many as they could.

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      5 months ago

      I don’t think you want to play the game of who can show who did worse things.

      It is Israel, 100%.

      Israel has killed 20 times that number and leveled whole families and neighborhoods slaughtering tons of innocent children.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    14
    ·
    6 months ago

    You know polls are utterly unscientific tea-leaf reading right?

    57% sounds empirical and they even have cool little charts to go with it. Best case scenario it was: you got someone who doesn’t want to talk to you to talk to you for five minutes, or you set the stage for a talkative bastard to talkative bastard at you until you can break free. Neither are particularly good windows into their actual thoughts about Thing X but furthermore all the responses usually total like 0.000028% of the population.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      6 months ago

      You know polls are utterly unscientific tea-leaf reading right?

      Lmao

      Maths is unscientific now

      E: To any downvoters: you are stupid.

      Polling is just maths, and is very reliable so long as it’s done reasonably.

      By all means have reservations of this poll specifically, but to call polls in general or as a concept “unscientific tea leaf reading” is foolish. Disagreeing with that mathematical fact is exactly the same as disagreeing that 5 + 5 = 10.

            • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              6 months ago

              When did I mention faked polls? You’re just making up shit now.

              You’re either a troll or stupid if you don’t think polling is mathematics.

              • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                6 months ago

                Russia polled in villages that they captured that Ukrainians actually want to be annexed by Russia. Can’t argue with math right?

                • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  6 months ago

                  Good strawman. I never said that polls can’t have a selection bias.

                  I said thinking polls in general or polls as a concept are tea leaf reading is stupid. Because it is. If you believe that, you’re a moron. You may as well say you disagree with the concept that 5 + 5 is 10.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    6 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The al-Aqsa Mosque has been a source of tension as it is located above the Temple Mount, a holy site for both Jews and Christians.

    While non-Muslims now have permission to attend their holy site via the Moors Gate, they are forbidden from praying there which has created increased tension.

    Palestinians, before October 7, had been permitted to enter Israel with proper documentation for work, medical treatments or for other reasons.

    When asked about the responses of regional and international powers to the war, 94% said they considered the United States position negatively, with 82% clarifying they thought it was bad.

    The same trend continued for other Western countries with 79%, 78%, and 75% of respondents viewed the positions of France, the UK, and Germany negatively.

    In a different survey response, 81% said that they did not believe the US was serious about establishing a Palestinian state and 77% of respondents named the US and Israel as the biggest threat to the security and stability of the region.


    The original article contains 666 words, the summary contains 168 words. Saved 75%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!