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Could someone point me to good resources to better familiarize myself with the facts around the Israel Palestine conflict?
What are the best arguments on the side of those who are pro- and anti-Israel?
Last year, a former moderator @ymeskhout wrote a two-parter describing how he used the current conflict as an opportunity to educate himself about Israel-Palestine, a topic about which he'd been fairly ignorant prior (despite being a Moroccan who was raised Muslim), and came away far more sympathetic to the Israeli side than he expected to. I was also fairly ignorant about the conflict when I first read these posts, and found them very persuasive with little to disagree with:
On the pro-Palestine side of the debate, Sam Kriss is a Jewish writer based in London who is firmly anti-Zionist and believes that Israel does not have a right to exist. I found this post of his very affecting even if I didn't necessarily agree with all of it:
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-the-brave
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