Who do you favor in the Israel-Palestine conflict?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What I favour, above all else, is less utterly stupid discussions on the internet about the topic. It's an extremely complicated situation involving several extremely complicated societies and without any obvious solutions, not a bloody football game.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If I was feeling mindlessly mischievous, I probably ask whether that means that Turkey (as the successor to the Ottoman Empire and all that) should have had the final decision.

Slightly (?) more seriously, it's obviously silly to attempt to 'justify' anything based on waving conflicting pieces of paper around. The 'justification' for Israel is its existence, the 'justification' for some kind of functioning Palestinian state is the existence of the Palestinian people. Which is also why internet discussions of the general issue tend to be so utterly depressing, because this is not generally appreciated...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I supported the peace process, the Israeli Labour party, the PLO, and the Camp David talks. In other words, my position is the absurd, the pathetic, the defeated.

Ah, I see what you did there.