I wonder, is there a monster inside all of us looking for an opportunity to break lose?
I hope not.

Dismissing the escalation of the conflict to a full-fledged regional war because 'nobody wants a war' is optimistic.
Same rationale would've implied Hamas not launching the attacks it did.
Avoiding a war is no one too priority and if it were, miscalculations happen too often.

The whole Gaza Strip is 141m2, less than Brooklyn and Queens combined. It's packed with more than 2 million residents. No other country is opening its doors to them. There's no place to flee to. I'm in horror imagining what will happen with this trend continuing.

To defend Hamas and its actions in the name of Palestine is to defile Palestine.
How can Hamas be Palestine when it hasn't held a proper election in ages?
It's not even serving its own people, launching the attacks knowing well the prices Palestinian civilians would have to pay.

As a Middle Eastern, I can't emphasize how much I hate the preeminence of postcolonial narratives Yes, events don't arise in a vacuum. No that does not wash away anyone's agency.
The irony is viewing 'colonies' as merely automatons is colonialism 2.0.

The trend here is fairly intuitive and not hard to justify.
But what about the static differences in the 70s? I did not expect liberals to be less welcoming of the scientific community than conservatives, especially since academia itself was strongly left-leaning.
Any theories?

Mind-blowing! Makes me feel like I should quit econ and go back to CS.