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The one scene that made me do a complete 180 on my opinion on the conflict


The scene where there are several Israeli soldiers bashing an unarmed Palestinian laying on the ground with rocks. What makes this even more disturbing than it already is, is that there is a passage in the Torah (or similar holy scripture) that says that Jews are allowed to break the bones of their enemies.
I understand that atrocities are committed by both side, but until that point I always believed that Israeli's were always on the receiving end of Palestinian aggression (probably because I knew that they are a very devout people and I was projecting my Christian "turn the other cheek" values on them), and to see such an unbalanced show of force really shook me.

And as for Israeli biblical claims to the land I will paraphrase Christopher Hitchins.
"if a Jew born in Brooklyn has the right to claim land in Israel/Palestine, then so does a Palestinian that was born there"

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