What is
the most frustrating part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to debate?
One of the many
frustrating aspects of the Israel-Palestinian question that one routinely
experiences as a supporter of Israel and a peaceful resolution, is that many of
those who you are arguing with aren’t doing so in good faith. This is all too
obvious. The well is poisoned from the get go rendering a great deal of
dialogue meaningless.
These voices
realize fully well that Israel has nothing to gain by strikes against civilian
targets but will continue to insist that this is the ‘real’ rationale for the
strikes. Hamas or Islamic Jihad on the other hand benefits by maximizing civilian
casualties on both sides and therefore fires rocket indiscriminately at Israeli
targets (Jewish and non-Jewish). It is in no way demonstrating a moral equivalency
to the Israeli response that is directed at the Hamas’s military apparatus with
incidental civilian casualties.
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