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Cake day: September 4th, 2024

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  • Two points

    Firstly the people of Europe are not a united front in anything and there is a plurality of opinions and positions on just about everything, including the current conflict escalation between Israel and Palestine.

    Second I think it’s of utmost importance to differentiate between people of a nation and the government of a nation. Im this case the people of the nations were behaving like assholes, true. But Israelis as a whole are individuals with individual opinions. Like all inhabitants of all states.

    People seem to forget this in times like these. I know of people that were scared they were going to be attacked (and they did get attacked sometimes) for looking Asian in the first months of corona. Now I almost never hear Russian on the streets in my city. And if I do, people are looking.

    I feel bad about this development.