• Overzeetop@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year ago

    Terrorists and Religious zealots (a Venn diagram which is nearly a perfect, single circle) will never recognize basic humanity, because power and control are more important than any human life. To expect peace in a land claimed as sacred by multiple groups is simply guaranteeing unending violence.

    • onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      1 year ago

      Except literally the hundreds of years those same religions lived peacefully together during ottoman rule…

      • sqgl@beehaw.org
        4·
        1 year ago

        Was it with an iron fist though? Genuine question because I know zero about that period.

        • onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t say it was exactly paradise but many jews fled to the ottoman empire to avoid european prosecution. The region was centralised or more autonomous depending on the era I think

      • Overzeetop@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Indeed. A relatively lightly administered area which was predominantly (3/4) Muslim. Then Britain took it over following WW1 and said “The Zionists supported us during the war so we’re going to carve out a Jewish homeland in this space where they say they used to live a couple millenia ago and we’re going to pretty much ignore that there’s someone already living there.”

        Now you have people displaced who felt their homeland was taken and people transplanted who believe their homeland is due them and the most extreme factions have guns and bombs to argue about it. There is no solution where Israel remains and stays at peace with it’s neighbors, some of whom were displaced to make space or Israel.

        It saddens me that this is the case. My great grand-parents were Jewish and fled the pogroms in western Russia to come to the US. Zionists are a stain on our religion.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      Bibi is in power because of religious zealots (and just under half of Israel hated him for it).

    • Laconic@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      For decades terrorism was primarily a tool of secular political organizations like the PLO and IRA. Combining terrorism with religious zealotry is a more recent phenomenon.