Benjamin Cain
1 min readOct 27, 2023

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I think it's the pot calling the kettle black here. Your reaction to this article is showing your "true colours," isn't it? You're saying Israel has a Nazi-like superiority complex, and that it's obvious Israel bombed the hospital. You're also nitpicking some sources of mine while ignoring the overall explanation I'm offering.

(I agree, though, that Orthodox Jews likely have a superiority complex. But most Jews are reformed and practically secular. Hence the pragmatism that's advocated in Ecclesiastes.)

Do you deny that there's virulent anti-Judaism throughout the Muslim world, a hatred of Jews that has been exacerbated not just by reasonable political disagreements, but by resentment and theology? Or that Israel's superpower status in the region might wound Muslim pride? I'm just putting those two obvious facts together to provide some context for the conflict, context that's being left out of woke circles with their kneejerk, one-sided condemnation of Israel.

The notion that I'm a partisan supporter of Israel is laughable. As a modern liberal society, Israel's subject to my sociological criticisms of modernity that I've made in other articles. This article happens to focus on something else, but upcoming articles in this series on the conflict will deal more with Israel's faults.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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