Wow. You assume and project a whole lot. Nowhere in my comment did I support Israeli occupations of the West Bank. Nowhere in my comments did I defend Netanyahu’s government. Quite the contrary, I have used the example of Netanyahu’s far right governing coalition to teach my family about the geopolitical consequences of electing far-righ…
Wow. You assume and project a whole lot. Nowhere in my comment did I support Israeli occupations of the West Bank. Nowhere in my comments did I defend Netanyahu’s government. Quite the contrary, I have used the example of Netanyahu’s far right governing coalition to teach my family about the geopolitical consequences of electing far-right people in government (and what it could mean if MAGA Trumpism returns to power in 2024). AND - just as we have significant political differences here in the US, the same goes for Israelis. Most Israelis DO NOT support West Bank Israeli settlements. The people who were attacked in the kibbutzim near the Gaza Strip weren’t West Bank occupiers. That would be as absurd as China bombing San Francisco in retaliation of a Trump 2024 re-election. One has nothing to to do with the other.
I was going off of your comment, which spends a lot of time being shocked and horrified that your kids might hear something anti-Israel (which you seem to equate with being anti-Semitic) or that someone might push back on your support for Israel, and no time at all saying anything about the plight of the Palestinians.
However, I never said you supported Netanyahu or settlements. I referenced him as an example of Israel behaving badly. Far too much of the discussion, even on normally good sites like The Bulwark, has been reduced these days to either “Israel has the right to defend itself and if you criticize how it does so then you’re an anti-Semite” or “Palestinians are oppressed, so even the slaughter of Israeli children is OK because they’re settlers, not civilians.” Neither of those positions is acceptable, but people only seem upset about the latter, not the former.
Wow. You assume and project a whole lot. Nowhere in my comment did I support Israeli occupations of the West Bank. Nowhere in my comments did I defend Netanyahu’s government. Quite the contrary, I have used the example of Netanyahu’s far right governing coalition to teach my family about the geopolitical consequences of electing far-right people in government (and what it could mean if MAGA Trumpism returns to power in 2024). AND - just as we have significant political differences here in the US, the same goes for Israelis. Most Israelis DO NOT support West Bank Israeli settlements. The people who were attacked in the kibbutzim near the Gaza Strip weren’t West Bank occupiers. That would be as absurd as China bombing San Francisco in retaliation of a Trump 2024 re-election. One has nothing to to do with the other.
I was going off of your comment, which spends a lot of time being shocked and horrified that your kids might hear something anti-Israel (which you seem to equate with being anti-Semitic) or that someone might push back on your support for Israel, and no time at all saying anything about the plight of the Palestinians.
However, I never said you supported Netanyahu or settlements. I referenced him as an example of Israel behaving badly. Far too much of the discussion, even on normally good sites like The Bulwark, has been reduced these days to either “Israel has the right to defend itself and if you criticize how it does so then you’re an anti-Semite” or “Palestinians are oppressed, so even the slaughter of Israeli children is OK because they’re settlers, not civilians.” Neither of those positions is acceptable, but people only seem upset about the latter, not the former.