Tuesday, February 20, 2024

A long article

 Here's a long article about Zionism.

Notably it has two links to academic papers on genetics showing that Palestinians are the descendants of Canaanites while Jews as a whole have less such descent.  And that's only one out of 100 topics.

I think it tries to be fair to Zionism and Israel perhaps slightly too much for my taste.

For example, it describes the October 7 attacks by Hamas as a war crime.  While it attributes some deaths to Israeli forces, it does not go as far as those I follow who attribute the majority of civilian deaths to Israeli forces--which makes sense because they had a zillion times more firepower and they've long been known to have the Hannibal Directive which demands that hostage taking be prevented by any method even if it results in the death of Israeli civilians.

(Meanwhile, supporters of Israel define the October 7 attack as genocide and therefore apparently worth killing 100 times or more as many Palestinian civilians as well as leveling their cities and even pushing them out into other countries, which Israelis describe as self defense, and of course their forces are the most moral army on earth*, and Israeli forces have lawyers to make sure this is so.)

That just one paragraph out of 30 pages of fair minded and potentially useful material in arguing with a Zionist, and most useful of all it includes references.  (Not that I'm saying you should do this.  There's hardly a more futile thing to do.)

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