Israel / Palestine

All the discussion of what a sentence means, to me overlooks that the people that were there were not listened to in their choice to determine their lives.

The whole area were not listened to after the second world war. The whole area were lied (to put it mildly) by the English?

Can we agree on these points?

I don’t think anyone would dispute these points. But once you factor in the Jewish diaspora we end up in a never-ending discussion of who was there ‘first’.

The Palestinians have been appallingly treated and there are many wrongs that need to be righted, and many of these wrongs have been perpetrated by right-wing Israeli governments who treat Palestinians as subhuman.

That doesn’t change the fact there are now generations of Israelis who have been born there and don’t have somewhere else to go.

So I’m still uncomfortable hearing ‘from the river to the sea’ on marches though because sometimes it feels to me like a dog-whistle - and like most dog-whistles, while some people use them innocently, others do not. It’s the ambiguity that makes them dog-whistles.