Hey! I appreciate you taking the time to write this. I have a lot a lot a lot A LOT of thoughts on Israel/Palestine as a Jewish person who studies the Middle East. Honestly, I too would prefer a religion-free resolution to the one/two state solution issue, but the identity of a Jewish state is central to Zionism, so I don't think that's a fight that anyone is going to win, especially while the ultra Orthodox have a chokehold on Parliament or while the rest of world Jewry is so invested in the "fate" of Israel so to speak.

Going through the unlearning process is really hard and takes a lot out of the people doing the unlearning. It was really easy to absorb all of the messages thrown at me growing up and when I lived in Israel for a short period of time. And then one day the radical notion that whoa Palestinians are people too and your elders don't always know what's best hit me, and I've been working through a decade and a half of shit to get to where I am now. That's something that has to happen on a large scale for us to get anywhere meaningful in this process, but because it's hard people don't want to. And that's a shitty excuse but you see it everywhere.

This is just me throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks so I hope it makes sense