Let me guess - you've picked a side on the Israel/Palestine issue and you're absolutely certain who the good guys are and who the bad guys are - so anybody who doesn't agree with your (probably) one sided reading of history must by default be a) wrong and b) a villain. I'm more than happy to debate either side of the argument with you. So declare yourself either Pro-Palestine or Pro-Israeli and we'll dust off the Argumentative muscles and see where it takes us. Even the word 'genocide' is complicated when applied in this instance - but we'll get to that I'm sure.

So. Pick your side. I've already picked both (and neither) and I'm fairly familiar with the history - certainly well above the average placard holder on each side. Here's me 2 yearshttps://medium.com/p/d866f7630b68

This is really really really really complicated. A lot more complicated than almost all of the things I regularly write about.This is about the British, the Americans, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, the second world war, the Cold War, historical anti-semitism, discrepancies between Abrahamic religions, territorial disputes, local governance, religious tolerance and intolerance, clandestine wars and spying, military supremacy, human rights, complex foreign machinations by multiple nations, the human propensity for in-group/out-group thinking, liberalism vs conservatism and the right to self-expression and self-determination of multiple groups of people with competing claims.

Saying something is complicated is not the same as saying 'I haven't read about it' nor 'I don't have strong feelings about it', saying something is complicated is more an attempt to point out the solutions provided by idiot-savants with their cartoon binary thinking of right and wrong is likely to make the problem worse rather than better. You might disagree but again, we'll get to that.

So, pick a side and decide where we start... are we going back to the Philistines and the Old Testament, are we starting at the fall of the Ottoman Empire or are we solely going from the 1940s. If you slap a Penguin with your gauntlet stating you don't think I'm able to provide arguments, you better have done the required reading. If he's not careful, sometimes Sisyphus might get squished by the boulder. ;o)