Steve QJ
1 min readNov 3, 2023

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Ah yes, you never claimed to know anything about me except that I was engaging in whataboutism and that I only want to focus on a particular set of atrocities. And also to know better than the person who wrote it what the article was about. Your comment is only 45 words long, do you really not remember what you wrote in it?

And no. Again, the article doesn't take a side as regards Israel Palestine. Because it's only tangentially about the conflict. In fact, where it does take a side, it takes the Palestinian side.

"You might even clarify that you stand with oppressed people but stand against burning civilians alive and murdering babies."

"This is why they can’t tell the difference between the past and present actions of the Israeli government and the Israeli citizens, be they Jewish, Muslim or otherwise, who had nothing to do with them."

Does this ring a bell?

But again, all it actually does is criticise people who are unable to condemn terrorism. Which, by proxy, is a condemnation of terrorism.

You might reasonably argue that I only criticise the side that can't criticise terrorism. But I'm okay with that.

I've written one other article about the conflict on Medium, and two on my Substack.

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-holy-war-2e182804b0d9

https://steveqj.substack.com/p/what-starts-a-war

https://steveqj.substack.com/p/the-pernicious-privilege-of-distance

All of them, some quite pointedly, talk about the injustice Palestinians have suffered at the hands of Israel.

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Steve QJ
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