• @teuniac_@lemmy.world
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    91 year ago

    To be fair, extremism flourishes when conditions are bad. Hamas is potentially a product of these conditions, or at least partially. If both peoples would be afforded better conditions, they might seem less incompatible than the two groups seem at the moment.

    About time the Palestian issue is put back on the agenda. Strangely enough, Israel is doing everything they can it seems to make that happen.

    • @Debeli_Perun@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      There’s a Chris Hedges - Sam Harris debate on YouTube you can watch in which Hedges brilliantly argues that desperate economic conditions actually lead people to turn to religious fanaticism as opposed to Sam Harris who argued that religion is fanaticism in itself.

      • @ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        11 year ago

        Then people should extend the same excuse to the Jewish people as well, who ended up in and with Israel because they faced genocide and exile multiple times in their history around the globe. From Arabs and Muslims as well, btw.

        • @Debeli_Perun@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          That would make sense if Israelis today lived in economic desperation which they don’t. Go watch the debate, it’s very interesting.