• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What next? People are perfectly rational actors and thus pure capitalism will solve all the world’s problems?

    While I appreciate the plight of the Palestinians and am disgusted by the resumption of Israeli attacks, Palestine was at no time a recognized nation on the broader international stage. While a people defending their rights to live on their ancestral homeland is the same everywhere, that much is true, the details paint very different pictures every step after that.

    And details are very important if you don’t want your shit fucked up.

    • Toni Aittoniemi@mastodon.green
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      1 year ago

      @Candelestine @psychothumbs Oh yes, the details. The Israel-Palestine conflict’s bloodiness must owe in part to it also being one of the stages where the cold war served to make heavy weaponry readily available, with both sides being heavily armed by either side of the larger conflict.

      I hope the days of the cold war never return. Painting a picture of Ukraine as cold war puppet state is as wrong as painting Palestine as puppet of USSR.