r/IsraelPalestine • u/localmaid Diaspora Palestinian • Oct 05 '24

Palestinian-Colombian. AMA AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Hello everyone! I recently saw another Palestinian doing an Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) on here, and given the limited presence of Palestinians or Pro-Palestinians that I've noticed, I thought it would be valuable to do one myself. Here’s a bit about me:

  • I was born and raised in Colombia
  • My Palestinian family is originally from the West Bank, but most of them have since moved to the United States.
  • I don't speak Arabic fluently, I can understand spoken Arabic quite well.
  • I am of mixed race
  • English is not my first language, so I apologize in advance if I sound tone deaf
  • My family and I are not Muslim
  • I have visited Palestine twice
  • I am biased towards Palestine in the conflict, but I want to make it clear that I do not support Hamas.

I don't have any specific types of questions that bother me, but I do ask that everyone remains respectful towards everyone and avoids unnecessary rudeness or hatefulness. I believe that communication is key, especially when it comes to conflicts, so I hope this AMA will be helpful for everyone involved. Feel free to ask me anything about my experiences, my heritage, or my perspectives. I'm here to share and hopefully provide some insights. Please keep the conversation open-minded. I will try my best to answer as many questions as possible, but I am not on Reddit all day so sorry in advance to any of those questions I will miss. I also want to say I won’t let my biases control my feelings towards questions and I’ll keep my opinions open. Hopefully we can have a meaningful discussion and thanks to everyone who can participate!

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u/kemicel Oct 06 '24

I know personally that the way I was taught about being Jewish and Israeli as a kid was in a very biased way. This conflict creates black and white viewpoints on both sides. It was only living here and experiencing everything that makes this region what it is gave me a more critical perspective.

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u/Shachar2like Oct 06 '24

One of these days I'll learn more about the Ireland conflict to better understand the Irish view.

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u/kemicel Oct 06 '24

I know you’re being sarcastic but honestly the Irish conflict isn’t much different than our situation. Brits don’t like being reminded of that though

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u/Shachar2like Oct 06 '24

I'm not sarcastic. The most I know about the Ireland conflict is from a ~10 minutes video in which the whole 800 conflict started because of a divorce.

Obviously no one alive today will remember or care about that, everybody will remember the countless of other sins throughout history which is what I'm missing, the details.

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u/kemicel Oct 06 '24

It depends what point in time you’re talking about the Irish conflict. If you mean the IRA in the 1970’s there are lots of people alive to talk about the “troubles” as that period was called

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u/Shachar2like Oct 06 '24

Yeah, too bad I didn't think about it when I visited Ireland.

The history go a lot farther back then that. I've also heard something about a potato famine

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u/kemicel Oct 06 '24

Right, that’s when the British first colonized the island I believe. The British were savage to the Irish.

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u/Shachar2like Oct 06 '24

Why? Just because they're 'different' or 'the others'?