What is the Israel thing going on?
seems like the 'safe' public opinion is 'we stand behind israel' and the left opinion is palestinian support
i don't live there i don't have any particular interest or fascination with the region i don't understand any of this pls don't yell at me
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The Israelis and Palestinians are fighting over the same land because they both think it's The Holy Land. The Palestinians had laid claim to it for hundreds of years (I think) and then the state of Israel took over the same land in 1950, which of course pissed off the Palestinians. Fighting ensued. The US, which is a massive military power backed the Israelis (because we have a bunch of Jews/Israelis with very deep pockets), which pissed off the Palestinians even more.
This is a vast oversimplification of about 70 years of massacres, death, and hatred on both sides. For the past 20 years or so, Israel has been incredibly brazen in its destruction of Palestine and colonization of Palestinian lands. At the same time, Palestine is literally controlled by a terrorist organization that is not even trying to attack military targets and instead seems set on some sort of vengeance (while using Palestinian citizens as human shields). So neither are good, and both seem set on genocide. If you had to pick one, stand with Palestine but denounce Hamas.
Of course it's a vast oversimplification, someone already wrote up an in depth post about it. Mine was a TL;DR
Well then you should work on your summarization skills bc you missed almost everything important in favor of a US centric view (lmao)