While I recognize some nuance, I don't see it as being as morally complicated, fundamentally. The conflict is rooted in the legacy of empire, and the settler-colonialist logic that was part-and-parcel in how the British and French operated in the region. Using ethnic minorities as loyal pawns was just business as usual for British elites.
What you're saying is true, but that's not a response to the locus about the Israeli social psychology that sits within the people of Israel, or Jews in general. Surely you understand what I'm saying when I imply that a person's ongoing, accumulated feelings (and trauma) of being a "minority," particularly a minority subject to literal attack from other people in close proximity, carries with it emotionally distraught freight that often derails a willingness to "work constructively" with those who are seen as enemies.
I'm not "explaining away" or excusing whatever social behavior and inclinations toward warfare we find among the peoples of the Near East; no what I'm saying is that it is very difficult to mediate and entreaty an entire nation that suffers from a form of psychosis and defensive trauma. Add to this ideological oppositions in religion and interpretations about what constitutes human significance and human rights, and we get...............................................what we see today, another manifestation of what has been already going on for the last 120 years or so.
It's tragic, all the way around. There's no doubt about that.
But when I say that I look at all of this from a historical, 'big picture angle,' the following clips----in full---and with more than just what these alone represent in mind in as wholistic of an analysis as may be possible, are what I'm referring to. It's beyond simply the historical instrumentalism that has evidently been used by nations of the West in the procurement of positioning of political interest in the Middle East:
Like I said, it's tragic, all the way around. Unfortunately, sometimes public psychosis and trauma brought on by war or by having been repeatedly attacked in ongoing episodes over many years prevent people from choosing to conduct more humanitarian, let alone fully Christian, modes of ameliorating social or international conflict.
Obviously, the World needs Jesus Christ.
