re: History buffs: A recommended podcast listen for the history of Israel/Palestine Conflict

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I think the first step to making this not as complicated, is to stop using a book from thousands of years ago as the basis for foreign policy. Cause if we’re gonna do that, then all of you should be in support of Native Americans reclaiming their lands. It’s creating hypocrisy.

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Loads of hypocrisy. In reality, the ancient Israelites were simply Canaanites who occupied the land. But their justification is that they were foreigners of Babylonian origin who had to take the land by slaughtering the native people including their babies. It makes it morally justified because God said to do.