Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?

Greyfoxsolid@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 108 points –

I genuinely do not know who the bad guys are. S lot of my leftist friends are against Israel, but from what I know Israel was attacked and is responding and trying to get their hostages back.

Enlighten me. Am I wrong? Why am I wrong?

And dumb it down for me, because apparently I'm an idiot.

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Are the real qualifications a caliper set and an unwillingness to talk about what they used to do before they got a position in the west German military?

No, the qualifications are people who have studied that conflict for decades and journalists that have been to Gaza and Israel themselves.

I value their opinion significantly higher than the opinion of people on Lemmy that haven't taken 5 minutes out of their day to read up on the conflict.

And all these people think Israel are the good guys? I wonder what their opinions about apartheid South Africa were at the time.

Israel was explicitly founded as a settler-colonial project, you can look up quotes from famous founding zionists.

“You are being invited to help make history ... it doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen, but Jews ... How, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”

Theodore Herzl to a Rhodesian representative