There’s a shred of truth to it. Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies just kinda exists as a figurehead of a defunct state apparatus, getting state money to serve as the vestige of Palestinian self-governance. The PA plays Vichy France to Israel’s full military occupation, while armed opposition is a French Resistance that’s been operating without any hope of a Dunkirk on the horizon.

And there’s a shred of truth to the Israel proletariat being swept by the tide of national politics right along with the Palestinians (abet, far removed from the worst of it). The Israeli police were happy enough to assault some orthodox jews in Jerusalem for voicing dissent just two weeks ago. And this was after the effort at sweeping out an Independent Judiciary in Israel lead to riot cops and Israeli protesters clashing in the streets a few months back.

Israel is a police state in every sense of the word. And while they lure Europeans in with the promise of free land, what they’re truly hungry for is more young men and women to fill out the ranks of their armed forces. It is worth noting that you can be an Israeli dissident in the same way you can be a Palestinian collaborator.

But OP’s take pretends at parity, when it is abundantly clear where the lion’s share of sentiment falls in either community.

Kinda unrelated but good work on the struggle on twitter against pat socs rn btw