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Either you don’t know your own history or you’re a troll. Either is appealing.

The root cause to violence in the Middle East isn’t Zionism and it certainly isn’t today as well. It plays a role, certainly, but it’s not the main cause.

Comparing Zionism in its early forms to colonialism is wild. The lands originally settled by Zionist people were legally purchased. It became much more convoluted, when the British mandate informally supported two different claims to statehood on the same country, in order to gain support from various groups of the region. What we see today, can be described as „the British fucking around and leaving others to fight over their mess“. But even that is a simplistic answer. The reasons for the current situation are multiple and stretch over vast time horizons. Simply attributing the cause to Zionism is antisemitic. That being said, I oppose the current israeli government and its allies ideas. But the reasons for war, oppression and violence are never simple. Life isn’t black and white.

Literally the only time with lasting peace, no vigilante groups, raids and so on was when the Romans tore down the temple and salted the earth around 73AD. Oppressed minorities or persecution were pretty much standard.

People have been slaughtering each other for well over 5000 years in the Middle East.

I feel like there is a difference between finding someone attractive enough to entertain the idea of having sex with them and starting/maintaining a friendship for the sole purpose of keeping open the possibility of sex in the future when they can exploit a vulnerability. If a friend treats everyone of his/her friends roughly equal, I see no harm. However, „friends“ that bend over backwards, get overly touchy and so on with the people in a committed relationship they wanna bang and not with people they don’t, I see a problem. Worst case yet that i encountered was a „friend“ that mimicked mannerisms, hobbies and appearances of the partner that „stood in his way“. That’s just plain creepy.