04-02-2024, 12:58 PM
He's crafting the questions out of the discourse that's in the air. It's more of a tutorial on one way to respond to this discourse. I suppose one might call them talking points.
I don't think that point counterpoint is the most productive route to solving this dilemma, although it can be a useful learning tool for people who know nothing about the history.
Nor are the conventional ideologies abstracted from other historical land disputes (colonizer-colonized, capitolist, imperialist, etc) particularly useful.
A better model might be family therapy, where two related parties are fighting over their shared inheritance, burdened by a history of trauma and deep dysfunction, seemingly beyond reconciliation.
I have heard it said that the land belongs to neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, but rather that they both belong to the land.
I don't think that point counterpoint is the most productive route to solving this dilemma, although it can be a useful learning tool for people who know nothing about the history.
Nor are the conventional ideologies abstracted from other historical land disputes (colonizer-colonized, capitolist, imperialist, etc) particularly useful.
A better model might be family therapy, where two related parties are fighting over their shared inheritance, burdened by a history of trauma and deep dysfunction, seemingly beyond reconciliation.
I have heard it said that the land belongs to neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians, but rather that they both belong to the land.