as someone who went through the same, it was mostly lack of attention. i had a vague idea that israel and palestine hated each other, and it was easy to understand from a perspective of israel taking palestinian land, but when you don’t think about it too much it’s easy to both sides it or feel like the supposedly western, supposedly democratic one has a point. i think a lot of people in the west had that vague, unrefined view when oct 7 happened, and it’s easy to stand with someone who just suffered a terror attack.
but it just kept being a focus in media, and the more you look into it, the clearer israel’s crimes against humanity become. and the crazy part is that the vague perspective of israel taking the land for themselves is absolutely correct, but when you see it for the real atrocity it is, rather than an abstract curiosity, it’s impossible to side with the occupiers if you’re not a bigot.
I can only add that, as much as I despise what occurred to Israel that day, it achieved their objectives in a way nothing else probably could have. It’s difficult to morally reconcile, but the evil they committed against Israel exposed a greater evil Israel was committing against them.
This is exactly how I see it as well, it brought the worlds attention to their situation and exposed Israel’s human rights violations and other atrocities to the forefront where as earlier it was easy to think of it as some local border dispute, now it’s apparent that Israel is a apartheid country that is trying to slowly genocide a group of people and will never agree to any peaceful solution. I hope that Americans get their shit together and force the next group of politicians that come to power to stop funding this amoral crime against humanity through their tax dollars
as someone who went through the same, it was mostly lack of attention. i had a vague idea that israel and palestine hated each other, and it was easy to understand from a perspective of israel taking palestinian land, but when you don’t think about it too much it’s easy to both sides it or feel like the supposedly western, supposedly democratic one has a point. i think a lot of people in the west had that vague, unrefined view when oct 7 happened, and it’s easy to stand with someone who just suffered a terror attack.
but it just kept being a focus in media, and the more you look into it, the clearer israel’s crimes against humanity become. and the crazy part is that the vague perspective of israel taking the land for themselves is absolutely correct, but when you see it for the real atrocity it is, rather than an abstract curiosity, it’s impossible to side with the occupiers if you’re not a bigot.
I can only add that, as much as I despise what occurred to Israel that day, it achieved their objectives in a way nothing else probably could have. It’s difficult to morally reconcile, but the evil they committed against Israel exposed a greater evil Israel was committing against them.
This is exactly how I see it as well, it brought the worlds attention to their situation and exposed Israel’s human rights violations and other atrocities to the forefront where as earlier it was easy to think of it as some local border dispute, now it’s apparent that Israel is a apartheid country that is trying to slowly genocide a group of people and will never agree to any peaceful solution. I hope that Americans get their shit together and force the next group of politicians that come to power to stop funding this amoral crime against humanity through their tax dollars