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The thing is that even when people heavily objectify the other side it also comes from vulnerability, the need to not stay 'behind', to accumulate experience and yes, to feel loved, seen and valued. It takes time until a person can relax enough to start seeing the other person as a whole and balance those two poles. Sometimes people even alternate between those poles in different stages of their lives. Seeing the other person from the physical filter is healthy and natural, when the question is about degree and not the trait itself.

You are welcome So what do you think is going to happen in the next 24hr? 😶‍🌫️

I post daily mainstream Israeli voices from journalists to politicians criticising their own side as well. You are welcome to check them out.

Part of acceptance is making peace with yourself as a biological being who is wired in a certain direction including always needing some social validation.

Ok, interesting. If you live there, you know. What issues are the sides in your country most conflicted about?

Every society is distributed along a bell curve. Focusing only on the extremes is whats dishonest, and constantly hiding behind emotionally loaded, contested and trendy labels like "Zionism" is dishonest too.

I added this article because it reflects what I personally feel when talking with people here from the pro government side and how I feel myself sometimes threatened or at least triggered by some of them. Even when I try to talk to the point, it isn't always easy. Tribalism is more pronounced here than in European countries I think.

Israeli voices 📺 April 20th

If any western country faced daily terror attacks on its border it would respond with force too. That doesn’t make civilian harm acceptable, but singling out Israel as unique in that sense ignores how conflicts like this tend to play out.

Eurofalsh in Tel Aviv, every Sunday. Magical Eurovision lip sync performances with a crazy talented band. I barely miss a night since I started going. From yesterday evening.

This technique is epistemically dishonest. You can take any country and paint its population or military in whatever color you want using this method. That doesn’t lead to truth but to a false sense of moral superiority.

@Schahin AlJazeera is funded by the Qatari government. The Qatari government has ties to hamas. This doesn’t mean everything they say is wrong, but since they are a significant side in the conflict, their framing should be approached with caution, just like IDF. I have my opinion about the difference between the sides but it is irrelevant since they are both sides in this.

Israeli voices 🐦 April 18th

Why did masculinity become toxic? Could it be that men started to feel more threatened in the traditional era, which caused them to become more rigid and closed?

@Lila9 Do you think masculinity in its origin was actually softer than what we got used to think about, and only after a while when society became traditional, we started to see a kind of hyper version of it?