Question about Israel vs Palestine support

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So basically we have a history where Israel forcefully took land from other people, sometimes using the same terrorist tactics used by the Palestinians today. So why do some people only care about it when Palestinians blow themselves up? Why not compare that to what Israelis did in the past? Or talk about the continuous removal of Palestinians from their lands to this day to create settlements? Why do people ignore this? Obviously it's not as if Palestinians are blameless in this whole mess, but why do people only look at it from the Israeli perspective? Why the double standard? Is it just due to the media coverage or is it just racism?

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This thread will end well.

I started another thread. I have a feeling we will see more posts in the Individual politics board in the next 24 hours than it has seen in a month.

This is interesting to me though. I don't actually think it is racism...just media coverage and ignorance. Most people don't realize the type of conditions Palestinians are forced to live in and the way they are treated by the Israelis.

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So why do some people only care about it when Palestinians blow themselves up?

Nitpick, but it's worth noting that the terrorist bombings of the 1940s were not suicide bombings, a tactic that doesn't see widespread use until the 1970s.

Good point actually. The fact that they blow themselves up makes them seem more crazy. And I don't have a very high opinion of their violent desert culture, and is one reason why they are having such a hard time finding sympathy. For me it's quite simple, the Palestinian people have not been treated right regardless of their level of craziness.

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I like the Israelis and Palestinians alike, and only consider myself with the Palestinian "side" since the ideal outcomes I want to see unfold in the Holy Lands require greater compromises from Israel at this point than they do from Palestine. If anybody, my opponents in the conflict are religious fundamentalists and violent extremists in both nations, whose stubborn insistence on taking their dogmatic, superstitious beliefs to harmful lengths is still needlessly complicating the occasional attempts by cooler, more sensible factions to resolve the conflict.

I completely agree with this. The Israeli side needs to make more compromises from the current situation but they hold more power making it unlikely. It's quite a clusterfukc. And of course the extremists on both sides.

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Why not compare that to what Israelis did in the past?

What would that accomplish at this point?

Awareness. Many people don't know it happened, and only see Palestinian terrorist acts through the media. Of course they could also show what's going on today in the Palestinian territories but perhaps that's not good for ratings.