Re:ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu fo...
by tptacek on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:42PM
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Sure. I have friends who believe that all national boundaries are immoral, that free immigration and equal citizenship is everyone's global birthright. I get that! I can't engage with it (any more than I can engage meaningfully with my anarcho-abolitionist friends), but I can recognize it as a coherent ideal even if my own premises prevent me from recognizing it as a practical plan. And, of course, I can be wrong about all this stuff.
I think the only thing I'd put on the table here past just recognizing that we're working from incompatible premises (at least, when we get past a Palestinian state and self-determination, and probably Netanyahu in a prison cell somewhere) is to try to stay cognizant of whether the standards you're setting for Israel are the same as those of other countries or other people or other ethnicities or whatever. because there's a whole grim history of people pretty much everywhere in the world singling Jewish people out as moral "others". But if you're being consistent about stuff, I don't have much to push back on.
I think the only thing I'd put on the table here past just recognizing that we're working from incompatible premises (at least, when we get past a Palestinian state and self-determination, and probably Netanyahu in a prison cell somewhere) is to try to stay cognizant of whether the standards you're setting for Israel are the same as those of other countries or other people or other ethnicities or whatever. because there's a whole grim history of people pretty much everywhere in the world singling Jewish people out as moral "others". But if you're being consistent about stuff, I don't have much to push back on.