When I was recently in the Middle East, I experienced, first hand, some disturbing trends: Israelis, from the most hawkish to the most dovish, believed Israel had made mistakes and was not a perfect country at all. Even a very patriotic and high-up official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said he thinks Israel gets it right only 75% of the time. However, when I spoke with Palestinian leaders, there response was that the Palestinians had NEVER made any mistakes, and every single one of them, Muslim AND Christian, justified suicide bombing. I pointed out that many people in the world had it far worse than the Palestinians but had not resorted to suicide bombing. The response? Utter silence, and further justification. One side knew it was not perfect and openly said so from the very top. The other side believed it was perfect, and justified terrorism against civilians. Any questions? #FreePalestine from the pride of leaders who believe they never made mistakes, and justify terrorism. P.S. We met plenty of thoughtful Palestinians, just none in leadership. In fact, some of them had been persecuted by the Palestinian Authority for those thoughts.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:16:46 +0000
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