82% of the Jewish public supports Israel’s attack on Iran and the timing of the attack. 65% of the Arab public opposes both the attack and the chosen timing. Some two-thirds of the Jewish public believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s motives for launching an attack at this time were mainly objective and security-related. Two-thirds of the Arab public think that his motives were mainly subjective and political.
Exactly. My read of it is, the main difference is how publicized the genocide is in progress this time around, which plays into a narrative that israel is some kind of anomaly - but in actuality, they’re following the same general playbook as earlier colonialism but with some modernization to the tactics. So, as you say, it’s despicable (to say the least) but it’s not unique at all. Their material interests as settlers point them straight toward dehumanization and genocide; they are in a place they don’t belong that wasn’t offered to them and are trying to make it theirs on a large scale, which means they have to manufacture a worldview that says it somehow is theirs and that they deserve to have it, even if by force (in this case, zionism). Doesn’t make it the least bit okay, but that’s the kind of system they’re immersed in.
Exactly. My read of it is, the main difference is how publicized the genocide is in progress this time around, which plays into a narrative that israel is some kind of anomaly - but in actuality, they’re following the same general playbook as earlier colonialism but with some modernization to the tactics. So, as you say, it’s despicable (to say the least) but it’s not unique at all. Their material interests as settlers point them straight toward dehumanization and genocide; they are in a place they don’t belong that wasn’t offered to them and are trying to make it theirs on a large scale, which means they have to manufacture a worldview that says it somehow is theirs and that they deserve to have it, even if by force (in this case, zionism). Doesn’t make it the least bit okay, but that’s the kind of system they’re immersed in.