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Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I'm an idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's fine. Some of my leftist friends feel the same way, like I'm not asking in good faith. I don't have any way to convince you that I am. I just feel like I'm not educated on the subject and that's why I'm looking for a wide array of facts and opinions.

Personally I think your perception is part of a larger problem of a breakdown in communication and education, where people automatically assume the worst of everyone's intentions because of either experience with other bad actors, or because you feel like since you have the knowledge you have and it feels intuitive to you, you feel like everyone else must also have that knowledge and anyone outside of that sphere is simply trying to be a disruptor.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Personally I think your perception is part of a larger problem of a breakdown in communication and education, where people automatically assume the worst of everyone’s intentions because of either experience with other bad actors

Thats a fair accusation. Theres often a lot of bad faith in these communications, so if you are coming from a place of good faith and are here to learn, I apologize, and I've added a bunch of history links to my original comment, so you can interpret the history yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for adding all of that information to your original post. I will read through it!