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Originally Posted by jfman
I’m not sure the point of the word games, Maggy consistently refers to Israel the state. It’s the state carrying out their war.
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Words are important. She refers to Israel but it’s not clear if she means the government or the people, or most probably both.
She says that
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Not all Palestinians are Hamas or terrorists
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and that’s true, but neither are all Israelis the Israel government and I’m sure very many don’t support continued air strikes on Gaza.
We’re supposed to differentiate between innocent Palestinians and Hamas, all the time (although there seemed to be many happy celebrating Palestinians immediately after the attacks…)
Yet we always refer to Israel as an homogenous block, giving tacit support to all Israel government actions, and I’m not sure that’s 100% correct.