| ▲ | dontTREATonme 10 hours ago |
| Can you name a single Palestinian who has actually moved the needle on a functioning democratic Palestinian state? Every single current and former Palestinian leader has been heavily theocratic, has pledged to kill Jews wherever they are and has never considered sharing any of whatever power he’s gotten with anyone else. |
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| ▲ | AlecSchueler 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Do you stop to ask what creates the environment where the most extreme views flourish and gain traction? |
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| ▲ | dontTREATonme 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I always marvel at the extreme racism required to so thoroughly dehumanize an entire population. | | | |
| ▲ | Ray20 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Islamist majority? | | |
| ▲ | AlecSchueler 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nope, Islamism is an extreme position so that gets you no further in the answering the question. What set the stage for an Islamist majority? Again I assert that extreme politics don't develop in vacuums. | | |
| ▲ | golol 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The thing is it doesn't help. Yes of course the horrible situation of the palestinians promotes extremism, but you still have to face that there is a lot of extremism. What was Israel to do before October 7 (besides making sure Oct 7 could not happen)? Of course there are ppints where history could have gone in a better direction but I really don't see an easy way for Israel to achieve a better situation. Say they had withdraw from the west bank in 2018 for some reason. Who says that Oct 7 would still not have happened on a much greater scale? In fact I find it quite likely that it would. And then you might be looking at 3000 dead Israelis instead. The only rational reason for the Oct 7 attacks I can see is that Hamas wants to incite as much violence as possible to put as much political pressure as possible on Israel due to the inevitable retaliation. So Oct 7 would have made even more sense, as the deoccupation of the west bank is far from the total of their political goals. | |
| ▲ | dontTREATonme 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | And here you are continuing to dehumanize and remove all agency for an entire religion now. Truly the bigotry required to hold these beliefs is breathtaking. | | |
| ▲ | AlecSchueler 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'm not doing that in any way. Islamism != Islam, and I'm not suggesting that the entire population of following Islamist beliefs, only that there's an environment where it can gain traction. Please explain your reading if you're going to make such personal attacks. | | |
| ▲ | dontTREATonme 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | You’re missing the point because you’re so unaware of your own enormous bigotry. All Muslims have their own agency. They are all humans capable of making their own decisions. And like all humans are happy to be held responsible for the decisions they make. You do not believe the above. | | |
| ▲ | AlecSchueler 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I'm honestly not sure if this is satire or why you feel the need to tell me what I believe. > All Muslims have their own agency. They are all humans capable of making their own decisions. And like all humans are happy to be held responsible for the decisions they make. And I'm not sure why you feel I don't recognise the agency of Muslims? As I said previously please make an argument or explain your position and I'll respond to it, but it feels absurd to entertain these seemingly baseless ad hominems. I grew up in a conflict zone and feel that I have some understanding of the group dynamics. That's totally reasonable and I encourage you to ask yourself if your apparent anger and incredulity here is misplaced. |
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| ▲ | tdeck 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is like complaining that Nat Turner didn't move the needle on moving the US toward universal suffrage. |
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| ▲ | dontTREATonme 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right because slaves in the American south were offered freedom tens of times but refused it always bec it might have involved some compromise they didn’t like. These childish comparisons don’t even pass the sniff test. |
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| ▲ | orwin 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| No? The issue US had with the PLF is that it was controlled by Marxist. the theocratic pro-palestine movements didn't start until the 90s. |