I wonder if Aristotle, when complying his list of logical fallacies 2,000 years ago, overlooked this one or if it genuinly is a modern-day fallacy. We'll call it the Fallacy of Uneven Deconstruction.
As mentioned in the previous post, referring to the Bible as the legitimizing source of the Jewish right to Eretz Israel is not a good argument. It is wrong from an argumentative point of view, and it is unfortunate because it can't be logically defended when liberals pounce upon it every time get the chance.
What is worth noting however is that the same critically minded liberals surprisingly give a pass to whatever narrative the Palestinian Arabs come up with as their claim to the land of Palestine. So the Jewish narrative is deconstructed while the Arab is accepted: hence the fallacy of uneven deconstruction.
The reasons to why this is so will have to be the subject of a separate comprehensive post. But to lift part of the suspense: Palestinians receive uneven and unwarranted protection due to being the pet victims of liberal Westerners.
Once we're aware of the uneven deconstruction, it starts to make sense why Israel always seems guilty and Palestinian Arabs always innocent. The political Left, so proud of its egalitarian ethos, conveniently forgets about equal treatment when it comes to how Jewish vs Arab stories are perceived.
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