When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the public discourse is very similar to American politics: roughly 80% of the people have made up their minds firmly in one direction or another, and all the chattering and social media blabbering is really just preaching to the congregation, while the remaining 20% mostly doesn’t care, or doesn’t have enough information to form an honest opinion.
This article is for that last 20% – the “undecideds” – who come with no predisposition toward either side, but are also not interested in learning a hundred years of history just to find out that both sides are right and wrong.
Therefore, I won’t talk about wars and terrorism or settlements and peace talks, because it’s all been hashed out before, and there’s no point in rehashing it in order to get to the truth, because it doesn’t exist. There is the Israeli truth and the Palestinian truth, and both believe theirs is the real and only truth.
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