I love your writing, but I have a qualm with one thing you wrote here, when you used Israelis and Palestinians as an example of "People have been hating each other for arbitrary reasons since time immemorial"
I would be very happy to have an opportunity to discuss this with you in further detail, but for now I'll just say that the specifi…
I love your writing, but I have a qualm with one thing you wrote here, when you used Israelis and Palestinians as an example of "People have been hating each other for arbitrary reasons since time immemorial"
I would be very happy to have an opportunity to discuss this with you in further detail, but for now I'll just say that the specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively recent, and you do a disservice to your readers by over-simplifying it in this way. Of course, I know this topic doesn't fall into the scope of your writing, so I'm not judging you for it.
"I'll just say that the specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively recent"
Hi Leor! Thank you. Ah, I bang out these comments pretty quickly because I'm usually having so many of these conversations at once, so maybe I wasn't clear here. But I didn't mean to imply that the Israelis and Palestinians have hated each other since time immemorial, I just meant to give an example of people hating each other for bad reasons. Same with the Tutsi and the Hutu.
I’ve found Can We Talk About Israel? to be a useful guide on this. The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict extends much further back than I realized.
I love your writing, but I have a qualm with one thing you wrote here, when you used Israelis and Palestinians as an example of "People have been hating each other for arbitrary reasons since time immemorial"
I would be very happy to have an opportunity to discuss this with you in further detail, but for now I'll just say that the specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively recent, and you do a disservice to your readers by over-simplifying it in this way. Of course, I know this topic doesn't fall into the scope of your writing, so I'm not judging you for it.
"I'll just say that the specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict is relatively recent"
Hi Leor! Thank you. Ah, I bang out these comments pretty quickly because I'm usually having so many of these conversations at once, so maybe I wasn't clear here. But I didn't mean to imply that the Israelis and Palestinians have hated each other since time immemorial, I just meant to give an example of people hating each other for bad reasons. Same with the Tutsi and the Hutu.
I’ve found Can We Talk About Israel? to be a useful guide on this. The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict extends much further back than I realized.