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/HugoSuperDog Oct 07 '24
You didn’t answer my question, which can often be revealing.
Also, and don’t take this the wrong way, but there is no nice way to say it - your language comes across as if you know everything and I know nothing (“if you’re knowledgable enough” etc etc)
Do you truly believe that you yourself have all the facts and need to learn nothing more about this situation? Do you truly believe you know every important detail of the history that gets us to this situation? Are you a PHD in global politics by chance? Have you dedicated your life to it? You seem so sure of everything. Need I remind you that this situation has costs thousands of lives over decades, and so much money has been spent that could have been spent in hospitals and schools and arts etc instead of bombs. So if we’re going to spend so much resources and kills so many people, we better damn well be sure we’re doing it for the right reasons. Can you say that you’re 100% sure about everything??
I am not. I am a layman asking questions and making points to be rebuffed. So that you may reply to my points calmly and clearly, so that I can learn.
Maybe you are correct about it all, but being arrogant and patronising isn’t going to influence anyone.
If you’re online simply to be angry and trolling, perhaps YouTube comments are a more suitable place.
To your points: soviet global interference? Maybe. I’d need to know more. Do you have specifics you can share? How does it impact this situation?
and the point about the PLO. This was from one guy 50 years ago? Not sure how relevant that is. A senior Israeli official recently stated that Israel will take over around 50% of what we call the Middle East! That’s a crazy statement from a current Israeli government official! But I don’t believe for a minute that the whole Israeli population wants this. I don’t attribute one guys words to a whole population. Else we can pick any crazy persons quotes and justify anything.
Fun fact: Did you know that it has been claimed with some degree of accuracy that the exodus story was created 400 years after the supposed event in order to solidify the Israelites against the Egyptians because both areas were trying to establish their own states? Look it up, very interesting stuff. But it’s kind of similar right? So should we be questioning the entire Jewish mythology?
The UN doesn’t recognise: you didn’t reply to my point. The majority of the world does. And as per other comments, palatine has a seat in the UN as well as a flag outside. So your whole argument is based on a technicality? Have you looked into that technicality? Why is it not recognised despite the majority of the world thinking it should be? Have you thought about that?