Why American Millennials Are Unsympathetic Toward Israel

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40. I see a few problems greater than the technical matter.

First:

The Israelis should not have been bulldozing those homes. Period. I remember seeing a lot of that in the news. The people who owned the homes were resisting. It was an act of theft.

Second:

Corrie was killed during an organized protest and not just wandering about. Many people were there and no doubt screaming bloody murder. There was no way the dozer operator could ignore what was going on as they were in his view, even if Corrie wasn't. BTW, I don't go along with the St. Corrie or Corrie the martyr crowd. There are risks to civil disobediance, and death is one of them.

Third:

Consider the First point, it was a wrongful action and unncessary. It does not matter what ideology was added to the act. Then with the Second, which evolved from the First, the incident itself. Dozing those homes was wrong, and running over her exacerbated that and was not acting right.

Thus, I see your POV on this to be faulty, as I've worked in construction around heavy equipment, much larger than you use as an example to prove that it was accidental. No one would get run over that because people would watching and the operator would see them. There were people about when Corrie was killed.

That being said, this may simply be a way to say that the Israelis are not the horrible. almost supernatural evildoers they are made out to be. Which is a reasonable thing to say, but very hard to say right now.

FWIW, I see Israel as a nation that has been at war all its existence. And the Arabs there have not run from war, they just haven't won yet.

And I believe they need to have one state with equality. Call a portion of the land by another name, and these guys will still be fighting each other. I see it as a civil war that has lasted over half a century, with both sides unwilling to get in.

There will never be two separate states. They will fight until one group rules all the land.

Just sayin'