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8 days agoLiterally one lesson on Israelite history will tell you they’re more bloodthirsty than the US. Hell, so many of our anecdotes about conflict stem from their war against the Canaanites, now Palestinians. They’re the OG source of war
Edited last sentence to be less sensationalist
My comment was very sensationalist because of my bias, that said I agree with your point about feuds being common everywhere. I also have a kind of tunnel-vision bias as I only looked at that region’s history.
As for the Old Testament, no my sources for the conflicts that range from now to 4,000BC were various sources of Wikipedia, likely American articles, and cross-referenced with what I could find in Al Jazeera and Israeli articles. But you’re still accurate - when white folk colonise and murder natives as massively as the empires did, you don’t have many people writing history other than nationalist zealots…