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Guttermouth's avatar

An amazing and balanced discussion.

One thing that was particularly interesting to me was the statement on Zionism: growing up in NY in frequent contact with the Jewish community I heard about Zionism very often, but I NEVER heard it framed even remotely as a secular ideology. It was always articulated to me quite straightforwardly as a completely theologically-rooted reconquista.

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Melinda Reidinger's avatar

I think there's another layer to the conflict that is considered too gauche to mention in public.

The oil and gas reserves controlled by Gaza, and a wormhole straight back to the Bush years when anyone who was not a strategic ally and who could dispose of their own mineral wealth needed a big ol' dose of freedum.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/21/palestines-forgotten-oil-and-gas-resources

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