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Both sides are equally right and wrong and it is frustrating from the outside

I want to start by saying that I am no historian or anything, I just feel incredible guilt if I don't show interest in the conflict (i feel like it makes me at fault and like I am personally killing people if I don't try to learn as much as possible - long story, doesn't matter. Mentioning it just for context)

From what I have searched, read, heard etc, both sides are at fault and both are perfectly correct. Both sides are ruled by radical politicians that are trying to protect themselves by literal human shields - aka people who have been lied to. Both Hamas and Netanyahu use fear as their way of "proving a point" pretty much. Both Palestinians and Israelis fear and/or hate eachother because (what looks like from the outside) propaganda.

I personally cannot chose a side. I get Israelis - they want a place where they are the majority because history shows that they aren't liked.

Palestinians are equally right - they want a safe place, that has (in the past 2000ish years) become their homeland. No one would like to be kicked out of their home. They want to keep their identity (preferably not in the way jews kept theirs - forcefully scattered around the world, because...well we can see why)

One one side - Israel is killing countless of civilians whixh, let's please all agree here - children have done nothing to no one and even if they have, not their fault.

On the other - as far as I have gathered, Hamas hides behind civilians, and while a lot of interviews show that the Israel army is...well...yes. Those casualties do make some kind of sense (not to say that the military is probably brainwashed in a sense)

There are good and bad people on both sides (as with anything) and I do think there are generally people who use this ehole thing as an excuse to either be antisemitists or islamophobic (or both atp)

As far as I understand (and have seen) both Palestinians and Israelis look similar, have a very mixed culture and walk (pretty much) the same land. Instead of celebrating, they are thought to be hateful and fearful.

I am sorry if this has sounded rude in any way, it is definitely not my intent. I have a huge sympathy for both sides and I do hope this ends as soon as possible with as little as possibly people dying. I am also sorry this is one of the most unstructured things I have posted, but I just find it so...weird in a sense. The more I learn about the history (i have a lot to learn but still) the more I wonder why we (humanity) are like this. This situation could happen anywhere in the world and has happened before. Why do we not learn?

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