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Thank you this is the best answer yet. > unresolved feelings from long Jewish history elsewhere What would those be exactly? And how does reporting non stop a
by joelbluminator 5y ago
Thank you this is the best answer yet.
> unresolved feelings from long Jewish history elsewhere
What would those be exactly? And how does reporting non stop about Israel help - or you saying it's some kind of obsession?
- TheGuyWhoCodes 5y agoIt doesn't. It just sales ads well. 1) Report on a minor issues in Israel 2) Make it "world news" 3) Escalate the tension 4) Rip those clicks. Do you think reporting on some stone throwing or a house eviction should be the top headline in CNN? These don't remotely compare to what's going on in Africa, Yemen or east Ukraine.
- yyyk 5y agoWell, you read quite a few comments of the form 'if they learnt from their own history'. Lets leave aside for a moment debates about Israel. This is a perverse attitude regardless of how innocent/guilty it is. When people have been historically wronged, usually the moral burden is placed upon the perpetrators (and perhaps their descendants) and not the victims' descendants. Some African Americans act very badly (every population has its own criminals), but we don't ask them to 'learn lessons from slavery'. We ask white people inasmuch we ask this. But in this case, it's only Jews that get this reply and somehow almost never the descendants of perpetrators of historical anti-Jewish atrocities. And this reply doesn't help Palestinians at all (I suspect it's strongly counterproductive), so it's not about them either. I suspect the root of this is unresolved guilt, the unspoken argument is "see, you're as bad as we are!". Despite that the worst accusations against Israel don't come close to the scale of several historical atrocities against Jews.
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