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Helen Rosner
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Staff writer @ The New Yorker 🗣️ Google “The Food Scene New Yorker” & sign up for the free email so you can read my column without a paywall 🍉
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HRhels.bsky.social

Really kind of soul-deadening how evergreen this sort of post has proved to be

A post on Twitter/X from @hels, dated May 15, 2021: “People will tell you that this issue is complex but it is very simple.

Ethnic cleansing is evil. Apartheid is evil.
Palestinian people matter and their lives are precious. Israel can stop any time, and won't, and has no excuses for it that are not rooted in misdirection.”
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ponedaddy1990.bsky.social

But Oct 7th....surely that justifies the collective punishment being metted out on people who had nothing to do with it and have zero political agency!

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Ffreakanatcha.bsky.social

All Israel is doing at this point is guaranteeing that the next generations of Palestinians will want the destruction of Israel

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CPcapnplatypus.bsky.social

The ethnic cleansing and apartheid are the easy part. It's getting the two ethnic/religious groups with a claim on the land and incompatible desires on what to do with said land to coexist that is the complicated part. I don't have a solution once we can stop the violence

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Mmjfgates.bsky.social

The number of 0-follower hasbara accounts in this thread is just astonishing. Don't do talky, do a blocky!

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JHilldottore.bsky.social

I think a lot about the comment I saw last fall “your feelings may be complicated but the situation is in fact simple”

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rivershill.bsky.social

What’s your take on a realistic pragmatic mid to long term solution that both parties could agree to.

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AMkenjamila.bsky.social

👏👏🙌

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CMchrismesser.bsky.social

Right, justifying murder because "it's too complex to stop murder" is pretty much the apathetic argument of evil.

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MEdomphenom.bsky.social

I feel like I have this conversation with people all the time and they can’t hold these two ideas in their head at the same time: “an achievable permanent political solution in Palestine is a complicated issue” and “killing civilians is bad and should stop immediately”

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ACwades.bsky.social

I started paying serious attention to Israel-Palestine over 40 years ago and yes, it's always been more or less like that. A bit less blatant back in the day but lines are in the same place they've always been.

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Helen Rosner
@hels.bsky.social
Staff writer @ The New Yorker 🗣️ Google “The Food Scene New Yorker” & sign up for the free email so you can read my column without a paywall 🍉
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