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...massive displacement of people that resulted from Israel??s founding 60 years ago is the object of willful forgetting in American foreign policy and of baffling ignorance by the American public in general. How else could we justify the massive and ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ native land since the mid-20th century—subsidized annually with upwards of three billion dollars from the U.S. government—while we correctly enforce the right of Jewish refugees to recover European properties from which they were displaced in the mid-20th century...
...late appeal to the Nakba committee for a debate, was set to speak after Chomsky at another venue. “The deceit is normal and uninteresting,” Chomsky said, referencing a chapter in Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Israel?? and moving on to elements of Dershowitz’s book that he believed supported his own claims of Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. Toward the end of his speech, Chomsky offered some analysis of what he said he believed are American policies that perpetuate oppression of the Palestinians...
...these refugees by their own leaders or of the violence inflicted upon Jewish populations in Muslim countries, hinders constructive discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Commemorating the Nakba has become another means of mourning the creation of the State of Israel, an event that Hamas and many of Israel??s neighbors still seek to reverse today through rocket attacks, kidnappings, and suicide bombings. While continual demands are made for a refugee right of return, the demand is focused exclusively on the right of all Palestinian refugees and their descendents to return to their former homes, and would mean...
...times, Hamas has been willing to consider a “long term truce” with Israel, but is simultaneously unwilling to recognize Israel??s permanent place in the region. Israeli leaders rightly view Hamas’ tactic as an attempt to stall any meaningful negotiations while they arm themselves with more sophisticated weaponry to attack Israeli civilians...
...Following Israel??s stunning 1967 military victory in six days against six Arab states bent on its destruction, then-Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan waited for the proverbial phone to ring, only to be disappointed that his Arab counterparts still clung to their bellicose calls to “drive the Jews into the sea.” It took several more lost wars and decades of violence for Egypt, Jordan, and the PLO to engage in peace negotiations. Perhaps all Israel can do is wait for Hamas to fully grasp the futility of its immoral and failed...