Every Israel-Palestine Debate In A Nutshell:
Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:
“Yeah, because Hamas did Y.”
“Yeah, because Israel did Z.”
“Yeah but only because the Palestinians keep doing A.”
“Okay but that’s wouldn’t have happened of the Israelis hadn’t been doing B.”
“But that only happened because the Arabs did C!”
But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.
Sure you can go further back and say “Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago,” but that’s just silly. There’s no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I’m only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.



















