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Who is wrong in the Israel-Palestine conflict?

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Who is wrong? People who think there is still one good side and one bad side, for starters... Generally speaking, the people who are wrong are the armchair activists on both sides. read more

2. The conflict is older than Hamas -- a lot older. The incessant focus on Hamas as the reason for Israel's self-described acts of self-defense is a red herring. This position pretends we are addressing a 27-year conflict -- not a 65-year conflict. Israel's actions against Palestine, specifically Gaza, stem back far before Hamas even existed. read more

Just because the underlying conflict is between two peoples who each have plenty of right, that’s not to say that there are no villains. Hamas is violent, not only toward Israel, but toward its own people, and, in contrast to Israel, it doesn’t seem to try to minimize civilian casualties — its own or Israel’s. read more

Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over Gaza on and off, for decades. It's part of the wider Arab Israeli conflict. After World War II and the Holocaust in which six million Jewish people were killed, more Jewish people wanted their own country. read more

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