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have you ever seen an israeli or a palestinian?
Neither like eachother. And honestly for good reasons. Good luck with that idea.
TL;DR this is basically like going "why dont the USSR and US just become one state" during the cold war.
They don't like each other because one is a colonizer coming to steal land and ethically cleanse the population. If they stopped doing that I think they could get along.
Black people and whites mostly get along on the US these days. Different peoples can live together.
maybe, but we're also forgetting that this has literally been a thing since the founding of israel, older than most of entire living families, and most of their grand parents as well.
I'm not really sure something like this could just be "swept under the rug" and forgotten in such a manner, though if they decided to do a one state solution, i'm not going to stop them either lol. I just think a two state solution is the only realistic solution here, given the historical context and pretext of the conflict.
Black and white people mostly get along now, which is true, but it took many, many years. For that to actually be the case, 1964 was the year the civil rights act was passed. But this was also a population that was subjugated and had their rights removed, not one that is militarily backed into a corner. So these are a little bit different.
Plus we also can't really apply US culture onto the middle east, they just experience the world differently over there.
It would definitely require a process similar to denazification in Germany, where the people are reeducated and all members of the previous administrative apparatus are removed from power. Like the radical reconstruction in the South after America's Civil War (before white terror overthrew their multiracial democracy I mean)
But Jews live in Germany now, and Germany is a great friend of Israel. Much like Black people in the US and whites, things can change.
We're all human, I have no idea why you think "they just experience the world differently over there" like they're aliens. I'm not making a 1-1 comparison but like, there ARE similarities!
maybe, personally i'm hesitant to throw shit like that around as it's really extreme, but i'm not the collective UN governing body so i can't make that decision lol.
well i mean yeah, but that's after literally every country except for like japan, went to war with them. They fucking imploded. Though granted germany would've eventually collapsed in on itself after trying to expand too aggressively anyway. Fascism is a silly thing.
they literally do in the same way that someone with color blindness experiences the world differently to someone with schizophrenia, to someone with tinnitus, to someone with a physical disability, everybody experiences the world differently, there's nothing inherently bad about that. Eastern culture is different from western culture, it doesn't take more than like 5 minutes to discover that places like japan have vastly different cultural and social experiences of the world. Thinking anything otherwise is just modern western elitism if we're playing the funny words game. Realistically it's probably just western people being uneducated about different cultures and being stuck in a very individualistic line of thinking.
The middle east is very Islamic, and they tend to have a pretty hard-line religious conceptualization of the world. Israel being situated in the middle east and jewish, is kind of innately opposed to this, since they're a different religion and are in the middle east, so it sort of provides grounds for conflict there. At least that's my western educated and "uninformed" take on it so take it with a grain of salt.
Thinking that you can take someone from china, the middle east, asia more broadly, or even just a remote tribe and then plop them into america and expect them to immediately adapt is just wild. I mean there is SO much study on this in psychology/sociology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock
like to be clear, there are similarities, for example, we're people. But that's sort of the primary one, even ignoring global culture, you and i have completely different views on a lot of things, Israel Palestine for example are one thing where we would probably vehemently disagree. I also experience socialization and interaction with other people much differently to normal people as well. I'm aro/ace and neurotic so i don't really care about relationships at all, and i wish to simply fuck off and stop existing in the broader humanity. Most people would consider that insane, but i don't really care.
I think the internet tends to have a really shallow effect on how people perceive others, which can be good in some cases, but it's also bad in others. It can be equally as bad to assume that others are going to be the same as you, as to assume that others are going to be different to you. People are different in a lot of ways, and they are similar in a lot of ways. It's important to keep that in mind when talking about things that are cross cultural.
The grounds of conflict are colonial! It's not a religious conflict, it's Europeans invading Palestine and ethnically cleansing the land of Palestinians. Zionists around the turn of the 1900s openly called it colonialism when they were discussing it and in their writings.
Obviously the conflict has evolved since that initial infusion of Europeans, so now most Israelis are born in the region, but they're still the descendents of those colonists. That's why my initial comparison was with the US because it's very similar - a bunch of racist Europeans invaded the land for colonization and expelled the indigenous people already living there.
Thinking that you can't learn from historical examples because everybody is too different to ever compare anything is nonsense.
I thought this article had some interesting insight into how living in Israel can distort someone's perspective on these issues.
That's how colonizers always are. Think about how much Afrikaners wailed and gnashed their teeth? Or French Algerians? Or, again, the white US South which construted a whole identity around being victims?
Settlers are settlers wherever they go. The decolonial struggle not only rehumanizes the colonized, it rehumanizes the colonizer as they are forced to recognize the pain and suffering of others. They still have to be defeated, regardless of their own whining.
That's also why denazification is necessary - these people need to be forced to recognize the humanity of others or they'll just migrate to Europe and America and be racist there.
shouldn't this technically be anti-colonial instead?
Anticolonial struggles are struggles against colonialism, the decolonial struggle is the struggle for decolonisation once colonization has already happened.