An important perspective to understand the Israel-Gaza conflict
Everyone seems to pick sides. Everyone who expresses an opinion seems to support one or the other but not both.
I probably missed something or offended someone in what I write below. If so, I don’t mind being told my mistakes so I can learn.
There are plenty of ways to look at the situation, and you may have heard more than I have, but I hear people describing the two sides as two cultures with different values and goals that are clashing violently.
It seems to me that both sides show different faces of the same culture, which we are in too: a global culture of living unsustainably that drives each community to exhaust its resources and require it to seek those resources elsewhere. That is, we are nearly all imperialist, growing beyond what we can sustain, trying to get what we are running out of from others, who want to protect what they have and get from others what they are running out of. Societies may run out of food, arable land, fresh water, space for their waste, etc.
Israel and Gaza are fighting over resources they are running out of, in particular space per person. Neither region has the resources to support its population.
As long as they both live unsustainably, they will always undermine peace. Us too. I’m not saying I’ve solved the situation, but it seems to me that any solution must take this view into account.
I probably missed something or offended someone. If so, I don’t mind learning from my mistakes if you noticed something I missed.
In the meantime, I recommend these videos on the situation from podcast guest Daniel from his video channel What Is Politics?.
I’ll post the other videos in this series as Daniel posts them. Here are a couple older videos on the situation:
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