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The Israeli military said on Friday it was preparing to immediately deploy a rescue mission with the coordination of the Dutch government.
“The mission will be deployed using cargo aircraft and include medical and rescue teams,” the military said.
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.
Thank you for your balanced and measured response. What you said is completely correct. I oversimplified quite a bit in my comment.