I thought it was more an argument about one-state versus two-state solutions, not rationalizing genocide.
Weren’t those arguments more prevalent earlier on when the full extent of the atrocities Israel was doing and intended to keep doing wasn’t yet so widely known? There was definitely a media bubble that kept the worst of it from hitting people’s feeds.
By one year in a lot of people who were saying “right to self-defense” had shifted gears to “wait no this is fucked up.”
“It’s OK to murder people who disagree with your politics” is a wild take I don’t think they fully comprehend.
I thought that was one of the pillars of USA identity.
I thought it was more an argument about one-state versus two-state solutions, not rationalizing genocide.
Weren’t those arguments more prevalent earlier on when the full extent of the atrocities Israel was doing and intended to keep doing wasn’t yet so widely known? There was definitely a media bubble that kept the worst of it from hitting people’s feeds.
By one year in a lot of people who were saying “right to self-defense” had shifted gears to “wait no this is fucked up.”