I'm not with Handala and his fellow travelers. In my opinion, the attitude that one should just defiantly stand there and reject everything until the rest of the world catches up with your moral standards is an important part of the problem. I can be pretty inflexible myself, but once I've realized that I'm not going to get along with a certain crowd, I'm perfectly willing to leave and apply myself elsewhere, even if I don't consider myself the one (primarily) at fault.
To use an example from another recent flare-up: Was it easy for the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to abruptly leave their homes and move to Armenia? Probably not. Was it fair? Perhaps not. But it de-facto settled the matter, put an end to the death and destruction and gave everyone a chance to move on and make progress.
I'm not with Handala and his fellow travelers. In my opinion, the attitude that one should just defiantly stand there and reject everything until the rest of the world catches up with your moral standards is an important part of the problem. I can be pretty inflexible myself, but once I've realized that I'm not going to get along with a certain crowd, I'm perfectly willing to leave and apply myself elsewhere, even if I don't consider myself the one (primarily) at fault.
To use an example from another recent flare-up: Was it easy for the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh to abruptly leave their homes and move to Armenia? Probably not. Was it fair? Perhaps not. But it de-facto settled the matter, put an end to the death and destruction and gave everyone a chance to move on and make progress.
Then we will see if you think the same when you get kicked out of your nation.
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