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Thank you. This comment got me to start !arabiccalligraphy.

language of the enemy

what have we done to him? I hate him even more than I did before reading this.

Edit: I didn't expect my comment to track. I may as well take this opportunity to post a Chrisitan Arab's perspective on Arabic

Consider a language spoken by Christians for more than fifteen hundred years. Its early masters composed exquisite poetry, pioneering a tradition that still flourishes today. Many of the great works of Christian thought were composed in this language; many of the most significant texts of philosophy, medicine, and astronomy were preserved in it. The Bible could be read in it for centuries before it could be read in English, French, German, or Spanish. Today it is spoken and written across Europe and North America, as well as Asia and Africa; it features prominently in modern political thought and advocacy. I am speaking, of course, of Arabic.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2024/08/arabic-a-christian-language

Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy in 2015 explains how Israelis do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtNFXL_ykg

tl;dw: they don't see Palestinians as humans

Here's another quote where he was more honest [emphasis mine]:

[It is the] iron law of every colonizing movement, a law which knows of no exceptions, a law which existed in all times and under all circumstances. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else – or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempts to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not “difficult”, not “dangerous” but IMPOSSIBLE! … Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ze%27ev_Jabotinsky

Yet, nearly half the comments here blame the Palestinians for the natural response Jabotinsky accurately predicted.

Killing the negotiator... Zionists never wanted peace, not even in 1923.

Why did the Greeks, Persians and Romans want it when they were pagan? and the Egyptians long before them.

Trade routes, natural resource, strategic location, ...

worked

is doing a lot of lifting

This tacit racism and ahistorical bigotry gets upvoted. Just awful. Western meddling and Zionism is the cause.

No it hasn't, only since WW1 due to Western meddling.

Europe has a history of more brutal and longer wars. They even brought some wars our way during the Crusades.

The conditions of the US and Iran aren't the same. Iran has been one of the most consistent and reliable supporters of Palestine since 1979. Also, Palestinians don't want to leave Palestine. In fact, Palestinian diaspora wants to return.

The Middle East has been a powder keg for a long time,

no, only since WW1 due to French and British designs, and since WW2 due to US and Israel

It is also ironic that a lot of this bigotry is coming from some of the most violent people throughout history, even in peaceful times

What would you say is the defining factor for those competing nationalisms?

indigenous vs. people from Ukraine and Poland