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David Brooks

Not a black and white conflict between victims and Nazis

The Israel-Gaza conflict has destroyed certain assumptions about the world order and pushed us closer to nihilism.

We’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organise their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality.

The Middle East conflict is best seen as a struggle between two peoples who have to live together, not as a black-and-white conflict between victims and Nazis. Getty Images

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David Brooks is an opinion columnist for The New York Times.

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