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Kresha Richman Warnock's avatar

I'm curious as to why the writer doesn't refer to the equally red-flag terminology used by the Palestinian cause -- "genocide", "decolonization", "From the River to the Sea". For that matter, in this essay, it sounds like he is referring to the existence of Israel as "the occupation." Does he distinguish between illegal settlements and the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East?

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Eddie Tabash's avatar

More people need to realize that Hamas set all of this up in advance. They perpetrated unspeakable atrocities against Israeli citizens. They knew that Israel would retaliate. They planned to use innocent Palestinians as human shields. They didn't care how many innocent Palestinians died. They even wanted it to be a very large number. This way, they knew the world would turn against Israel and Israel would have to ultimately agree to a ceasefire before Hamas could be destroyed.

Just like religious right wingers won't deeply investigate whether the religious views they espouse are true or not, anti-Israel left wingers won't subject their knee-jerk siding with those who would destroy Israel to a more thorough analysis.

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