The recent recognitions of a Palestinian state and the October 10 ceasefire have been followed by a flurry of calls to “deradicalize” Palestinian society. The New York Times editorial board went so far as to compare this deradicalization project to the denazification of Germany after the Second World War. These calls have the situation backwards to the point of farce.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
    42·
    7 hours ago

    I think Israel is carrying out a genocide and even so my question is: Why not both? Whose responsibility is it, and why uniquely on Israel/Palestine?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY

    I’m not naive enough to think this is possible, I’d just be happy if world powers and neighboring countries at least stopped feeding the conflict. Oh, look at me, and I just said I wasn’t into naive hopes.

    • FlyingCircus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      6 hours ago

      Sure, one side has 95% of the world’s wealth behind it and the support of the strongest military in history, but yeah both sides are equally responsible and have equal impact on whether the genocide continues…

    • acargitz@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      31·
      6 hours ago

      The most certain way to deradicalize the Palestinians is simply to deradicalize and demilitarize the Israeli state and to dismantle its apartheid and occupation edifice.