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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I believe we are going in circles here. Whenever the point of how the state of Israel was established comes up you want to skip a few centuries back as if that makes any difference to the genocide that has been perpetrated by the israeli militants since 1947. And like I said in my other comment, the history is complex but the morality is not. I stand against colonialism even in the face of cruel action against the colonialist settlers. There is nothing to justify ongoing colonialism.

As for unsolvable, it isn't. But since it would involve the israeli people to look at what they did, the extremists using their religion as a means to an end to be silenced and for many israelis to give up some of their privileges it isn't a solution that will come by peacably.

If you really are interested in the historical context of certain actions I would recommend Noam Chomsky's tome "The fateful triangle". And it really is like Edward Said says in its foreword about Chomsky's claim

Israel and the United States - especially the latter - are rejectionists opposed to peace, whereas the Arabs, including the PLO, for years have been trying to accommodate themselves to the reality of Israel.

http://goodtimesweb.org/documentation/2012/Noam-Chomsky-Fateful-Triangle.pdf