Don’t fall into the trap of ‘picking sides’ over Gaza: Hamas’s attacks were unconscionable, razing Gaza to the ground would be abhorrent. In both cases, basic humanity is at stake --- [Opinion] - Feddit
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  • Overzeetop@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Terrorists and Religious zealots (a Venn diagram which is nearly a perfect, single circle) will never recognize basic humanity, because power and control are more important than any human life. To expect peace in a land claimed as sacred by multiple groups is simply guaranteeing unending violence.

    • onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      8 months ago

      Except literally the hundreds of years those same religions lived peacefully together during ottoman rule…

      • sqgl@beehaw.org
        2·
        8 months ago

        Was it with an iron fist though? Genuine question because I know zero about that period.

      • Wahots@pawb.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        Probably because the Ottoman empire would just crush everyone’s cock with a rock if they so much as started anything. I highly doubt anyone around there voted for the Ottoman empire to occupy their lands and take their resources, haha.

        Generally, strongman rule makes things pretty peaceful. Vlad the impaler had a low crime rule, but he also impaled 20,000 enemy troops in a “Forest of the imapaled” and also impaled any criminals, which somehow kept crime remarkably low. But it wasn’t exactly a happy rule, and people cheered when he was eventually ambushed, beheaded, and (fittingly) impaled on the walls above Constantinople…ironically by Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman empire. xD

        He fought the Ottoman empire’s encroach his entire life and ended up getting ambushed and dying stupidly. But he went down in legend for being crazy hardcore (and his wife, queen Justinia too, who was absolutely mental as well, iirc)

    • Laconic@beehaw.org
      0·
      8 months ago

      For decades terrorism was primarily a tool of secular political organizations like the PLO and IRA. Combining terrorism with religious zealotry is a more recent phenomenon.

    • sqgl@beehaw.org
      1·
      8 months ago

      Bibi is in power because of religious zealots (and just under half of Israel hated him for it).