I Actually Spent Time in Palestine - Here's what I saw about their society
An American college student notices the prejudice of extremist Israelis...
...and a complete denial of reality by the Palestinians.
Looking back, my conversation with the two Palestinians who denied the existence of the Second Temple foreshadowed something that I gradually came to recognize: while I was more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause when I first traveled to the West Bank, I came to realize that facts are largely irrelevant for the vast majority of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian activists.
I went to Israel in 2014. I've probably said this before at my own place, but what struck me at the time was how much better off they were treated than Iraqis treated each other. When I went to Egypt in 2018, I saw the same thing again. They Syrian civil war proved it in spades.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason we focus on this one, but Assad would not have been so gentle if they'd crossed him. Saddam would not have been. Even the Egyptians; even the Kuwaitis, who come to think of it ethnically cleansed themselves of Palestinians after the Gulf War. They'd helped Saddam, you see. None are left.