[init2null]

And it doesn't fit with the conservative Christian view of the nation consisting purely of those that fled Germany. The truth is simply more complicated than either extreme is comfortable with.

That being said, the ancestry and the history doesn't change the actions being committed today.

[apical_dendrite]

I don't think it changes the facts about what is happening, but I do think it changes how we think about the roots of the conflict, and about how (if) it gets resolved in the long term.

[alephnerd]

> That being said, the ancestry and the history doesn't change the actions being committed today

Yep. But it adds nuance, which has been lost in discourse.

This is fundamentally an Eastern conflict that can only be resolved by Mizrahis and Arabs.

Westerners converting Israel-Palestine into a culture war are doing more harm than good, because it breeds resentment from both sides, as both view the West as the lackey of the other.