FTAC.

End the Preoccupation (with Jews). They are not peacemakers where Hamas and others like them are involved: they are conflict sustaining. They are part of what keeps it going. Israel is the democracy in the neighborhood, the liberating force, the entity that listens with compassion and empathy, and the entity that knows self-restraint. That it has chosen to mobilize against a still genocidal political movement that has launched at it more than 8,000 rocket-enabled attempted murders comes almost as a surprise.

The way to freedom for the residents of Gaza (many of whom have been jailed and tortured by Hamas for political purposes) is to eject Hamas and its kind permanently. Then they will be able to speak for themselves without intimidation and with a broad palette of practical and representative paths. Hamas, many today Gaza millionaires with mansions (truly: Gaza has been made a victim of the “one percent”), has never had anything good to offer the refugees of 1948.

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