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Originally Posted by TheNasty
Again, this comes down to my belief that Hamas means what they say and won't stop until Israel doesn't exist. |
This goes both ways. According to more-or-less official Israeli ideology, Palestinians are not a people. According to this line of thinking, Palestinians have no history, unlike the Jews who can claim thousands of years of history. We see this position acted out every day in US papers and in threads like this. It is also acted out in Occupied Territories and within Israel itself. You can see why people would take this position once they buy into Zionism, but it's not exactly an attitude that's going to win over the Palestinians. This is where the ideology of the nation-state gets you.