Thank you for your article and your journey into a war zone. I wish someone would explore more deeply the simplistic binary between the evil Hamas and the innocent and suffering everyday Gazan and Palestinian. In a culture where children are schooled in Jew-hatred in schools named for terrorists, it seems to me that the problem goes far …
Thank you for your article and your journey into a war zone. I wish someone would explore more deeply the simplistic binary between the evil Hamas and the innocent and suffering everyday Gazan and Palestinian. In a culture where children are schooled in Jew-hatred in schools named for terrorists, it seems to me that the problem goes far deeper than a handful of Islamist fanatics terrorizing their own people, making them in much of the reporting equal or even superior to those Israelis slaughtered on 10/7. The following interview https://quillette.com/2024/03/04/dan-schueftan-transcript/ is probably behind a paywall, but search for Schueftan. Extreme perhaps, but insightful in his apprehension of the culture and values war at the heart of the conflict. It seems to me that in the West we want to lay the blame on a handful of bad actors, when the reality is far more disturbing in its implications. From our hubristic attempts to make Iraq a democracy to securing a more humane society in Afghanistan, our efforts flounder in a thoroughly alien social and cultural landscape.
Thank you for your article and your journey into a war zone. I wish someone would explore more deeply the simplistic binary between the evil Hamas and the innocent and suffering everyday Gazan and Palestinian. In a culture where children are schooled in Jew-hatred in schools named for terrorists, it seems to me that the problem goes far deeper than a handful of Islamist fanatics terrorizing their own people, making them in much of the reporting equal or even superior to those Israelis slaughtered on 10/7. The following interview https://quillette.com/2024/03/04/dan-schueftan-transcript/ is probably behind a paywall, but search for Schueftan. Extreme perhaps, but insightful in his apprehension of the culture and values war at the heart of the conflict. It seems to me that in the West we want to lay the blame on a handful of bad actors, when the reality is far more disturbing in its implications. From our hubristic attempts to make Iraq a democracy to securing a more humane society in Afghanistan, our efforts flounder in a thoroughly alien social and cultural landscape.