It’s my understanding that they’ve always (or at least for a long time) been problematic, but it’s only under Netanyahu’s leadership that they’ve gone full fascist and genocidal. Largely because he likes using endless external conflicts to distract from his abysmal right-wing domestic policies.
The have always been very problematic,
But in the United States they weaponized religious dogma to sweep it all out of public consciousness. If you’re Jewish, it’s the homeland. If you’re Christian or Catholic, it’s “where Jesus happened” and if you’re psychotic and racist, when you kick out all the Jews of the world and they all return there, god will take you into heaven, body and soul, and the rest of the world will be left to fight over the scaps of a burning wasteland, hell on Earth.
It always baffles me how Christians made a warning into a salvation story. “Body and soul to heaven” you will be obliterated by war and there won’t be a body left.
Before Oct 7, I was a vague supporter of Israel. I got interested and read a few books. Goddamn!
Only one is a polemic, the other two are histories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Years’_War_on_Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day,_Everyone_Will_Have_Always_Been_Against_This
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethnic_Cleansing_of_Palestine
It’s my understanding that they’ve always (or at least for a long time) been problematic, but it’s only under Netanyahu’s leadership that they’ve gone full fascist and genocidal. Largely because he likes using endless external conflicts to distract from his abysmal right-wing domestic policies.
The have always been very problematic, But in the United States they weaponized religious dogma to sweep it all out of public consciousness. If you’re Jewish, it’s the homeland. If you’re Christian or Catholic, it’s “where Jesus happened” and if you’re psychotic and racist, when you kick out all the Jews of the world and they all return there, god will take you into heaven, body and soul, and the rest of the world will be left to fight over the scaps of a burning wasteland, hell on Earth.
It always baffles me how Christians made a warning into a salvation story. “Body and soul to heaven” you will be obliterated by war and there won’t be a body left.
I wouldnt call the nakba merely problematic.