Would the Violence in Gaza Stop if More Brave Young Americans Did This?

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4. Exactly the point.

Not being concerned about a peoples religious belief should not invoke an automatic reaction to comments against Israeli aggression as being against their faith. Sadly though, whenever citing atrocities of the Israeli military one gets labeled as anti-Jewish. It is the country, its leadership, and its foreign policies that offend, not the people of it.

The media makes it worse for people like myself by using terms like the state of Israel. It is a country. Calling it a state only sends a signal that we are about to hear a biased report. There is not a state in this country that is aggressive and nuclear world power. What's the point other than to have imagery of ducks on a pond instead of famine and destruction. Other descriptors like tiny and isolated strengthen an already negative feeling.

Taking a defensive stance for Israel by focusing on the people and not the problem is one of the biggest reasons support for their actions cannot grow. Like so many things discussed here progress cannot be made before ridding ourselves of our own biases for long enough to look at things from a different perspective.

Posters here will obviously try to correct me, as do some of my own relatives. Breaching this subject with them is as useful as talking to a dog, except the dog doesn't have a two-sentence or 20 second limit on his ability to listen.