July 30, 2022, Miko Peled
Upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, which sits on the lands of the occupied Palestinian city of El-Lyd, President Joe Biden repeated his age-old mantra, “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” Indeed you do not. To be a Zionist, you only need to be a racist, a supporter of the hate-filled, violent, intolerant apartheid regime that has been occupying Palestine since 1948. You need to believe that people who are not Palestinians have a right to Palestine and to its resources. To be a Zionist, you don’t need to be Jewish, you just need to repeat the absurd claim that the Bible gives all Jewish people around the world the right to kill people because they are Palestinians who want to return to their homes and their land.
In a nauseating show of hypocrisy, President Biden, Israeli President Yitzhak Hertzog, and Prime Minister Lapid spoke of peace, justice, and human rights as the shared values of the United States and the State of Israel. This was less than twenty-four hours after John Bolton admitted to orchestrating coup d’états in countries around the world. This is also after Israeli military, and political figures openly talked about assassinating Iranian scientists and officials.
The values shared by Israel and the United States are clearly represented in the fact that President Biden is visiting a country that only recently assassinated the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu-Akleh and is keeping silent about it. The president of the United States is in Israel, meeting with heads of the Israeli state, and yet rather than using the full force of his position – which is considerable – to demand accountability, he says and does nothing.
American journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The murders of Khashoggi and that of Shireen Abu Akleh are not the only crimes committed by the two regimes for which Biden is showing love, but these two were well publicized and involve U.S. nationals, so one would think he would act or at least speak out.
U.S. support for Israel is a bad deal for the American taxpayers. $3.8 billion dollars of American taxpayers’ money gets sent to Israel at the beginning of each year. And with the exception of the military-industrial complex, Americans get little out of this.
American citizens who wish to travel to Palestine, particularly if they have an Arab name or family there, are subjected to harassment by the Israeli authorities. This harassment takes place at Tel-Aviv airport, where the authorities are notoriously racist, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim. The harassment can last for many hours and often results in refusal of entry into the country. U.S. citizens are not protected from the inhumane interrogation process that takes place at the airport on the way in, and they are not protected by their U.S. citizenship when they leave the country.
A U.S. passport does not even protect Americans from being shot and killed by Israeli forces. Rachel Corrie and Shireen Abu-Akleh, both citizens of the United States, were killed in broad daylight. They were wearing safety equipment, they were well identified as non-combatant civilians, and they were both butchered in plain sight. Washington made no effort to bring the criminals to justice.
Another U.S. citizen who died at the hand of IDF soldiers is Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad. He died on January 12 after he was arrested by IDF troops. According to a report in The Jerusalem Post, the seventy-eight-year-old As’ad “was arrested, handcuffed, blindfolded and gagged,” after which the soldiers left. Also, according to the Post report, “the soldiers did not call for medical assistance and left him there believing that he had fallen asleep.” Although several members of congress did issue statements, no real action was taken to hold Israel accountable.
Where was the U.S. government to protect him? Where was the demand to investigate and bring the culprits to justice? and where are the sanctions against the State of Israel, which shows no regard for the lives of Palestinians?
The Israeli human-rights organization B’Tselem commented that: “The army’s announcement regarding the death of Omar Assad is adorned with empty words about ‘moral failure’ – concluding, as expected, with the faintest of rebukes…In fact, the fundamental moral failure is that of Israel’s senior echelons, leading a regime of Jewish supremacy, one in which the human life of Palestinians has no value.”
Contrary to what is said about Israel, it is neither a democracy nor an island of stability. It has been several years since Israel has been able to function as a state. This is due to the fact that there has not been a government with a stable majority in place. Elections are held over and over again, and even though the results are predictably the same, no stable government is formed. The election results have been consistent, clearly showing what Israeli voters want, namely, they are in favor of a strong, ultra-right-wing government led by racists like Benjamin Netanyahu, who was indicted for corruption, and war criminal generals like Benny Gantz.
Neither the corruption nor the war crimes seem to have any impact on the voters, and these people are elected over and over again. The only thing that changes are the partnerships between the politicians who rarely last very long and the new generals that join the political arena. The one thing that remains constant in Israeli politics is Benjamin Netanyahu. He and his loyal Likud Party followers are the only stable, consistent element in Israeli politics.
Judging by his performance, Joe Biden is working for AIPAC and not for the American people. He hit every note, shook every hand and repeated his mantras, clearly trying to please his donors back home. According to reports, he even made sure to tell Benjamin Netanyahu that he likes him. His interview on Israeli television included a commitment to keep the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on the list of terrorist organizations and even to attack Iran if that was what it took to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. That is not what his constituents in the U.S. want, but it is what Israel and AIPAC expect of him.
Feature photo | President Joe Biden, center, speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog at the Hall of Remembrance of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. Debbie Hill | Pool via AP
Miko Peled is MintPress News contributing writer, published author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. His latest books are”The General’s Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,” and “Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.”
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Here is another piece of relevance that I
came across. To claim that I wrote it - or the previous
piece- will amount to intellectual fraud.
Gloria
AL-FAKHEET, West Bank (AP) — After repeatedly rebuilding his home only to have it demolished by Israeli soldiers, Mohammed Abu Sabaha has a new plan to remain on the land — he is moving into a cave.
Abu Sabaha is among some 1,000 Palestinians at risk of expulsion from an arid region of the occupied West Bank that the Israeli military has designated as a live-fire training zone. Israel’s Supreme Court upheld their expulsion in May after a two-decade legal battle.
Most residents of the area, known as Masafer Yatta, have remained in place since the ruling, even as Israeli security forces periodically roll in to demolish structures. But they could be forced out at any time, and rights groups fear Israel will do it gradually to evade international scrutiny.
The entrance to Abu Sabaha’s cave is surrounded by the ruins of homes and animal pens that the soldiers demolished in earlier raids. The coo and cackle of chickens can be heard from inside a wrecked coop. A set of stone steps leads down into the cave, where he has strung up electrical lights, but it will take time to turn it into a home for his wife, parents and six children.
“We have suffered a lot because of this ruling. Especially the kids, who were born here,” he said, standing in the dimly lit cave. “They fled demolitions, then went back when we rebuilt, so many times.”
When the army isn’t demolishing homes it is staging training exercises nearby. Tanks throw up dust clouds and heavy machine-gun fire and explosions echo across the desert hills. Abu Sabaha says his 3-year-old daughter Zeynab tenses up every time she sees them.
“She’s always afraid they will come to destroy once again,” he said.
The military declared this part of Masafer Yatta a firing and training zone in the early 1980s. Israeli authorities said the residents — Arab Bedouin who practice a traditional form of agriculture and animal herding — only used the area part of the year and had no permanent structures there at the time. In November 1999, security forces expelled some 700 villagers and destroyed homes and cisterns. The legal battle began the following year.
The families say they have been there for decades — from long before Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war — and have nowhere else to live. Some residents have traditionally resided in caves part of the year, as they graze sheep and goats in different areas.
Israel’s Supreme Court sided with the state in May, after the villagers rejected a compromise that would have allowed them to enter at certain times and practice agriculture for part of the year.
Since then, the army has demolished several structures and seized vehicles, setting up roadblocks and checkpoints to limit movement, according to Nidal Younes, head of the local council.
“All of this is within the framework of occupation, to frighten, to scare, to make people’s lives extremely difficult to force them to leave,” he said.
Masafer Yatta is in the 60% of the occupied West Bank known as Area C, where the Israeli military exercises full control under interim peace agreements reached with the Palestinians in the 1990s. Palestinian structures built without military permits — which residents say are nearly impossible to obtain — are at risk of demolition.
Area C is also home to several Jewish settlement outposts that are protected by the army despite being built without Israeli authorization. Nearly 500,000 settlers live in communities across the West Bank, most of which were planned and approved by the government. Many resemble small towns or suburbs, with apartment blocks, shopping malls and factories.
The Palestinians and the international community view the settlements as a major obstacle to resolving the century-old conflict because they absorb and divide up the land on which a future Palestinian state would be established alongside Israel.
Israel officially considers the West Bank disputed territory subject to negotiations, but every government since 1967 has expanded settlements, and the country’s dominant right-wing parties are opposed to Palestinian statehood. One of the Supreme Court justices who issued the ruling on Masafer Yatta is a settler.
Eugene Kontorovich, a legal scholar at Israel’s Kohelet Policy Forum, a right-wing think tank, said Israel could not allow “private squatters to determine the uses of state land” and was justified in barring people from entering a military firing range.
“The technical, legal justification is that it’s not their land,” he added.
Rights groups say several other Palestinian communities across the West Bank could face similar threats of expulsion if the international community does not pressure Israel over Masafer Yatta. Israel has declared firing zones in 20% of the West Bank, affecting some 5,000 Palestinians from 38 communities, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Dror Sadot, a spokeswoman for the Israeli rights group B’Tselem, said Israel would likely implement a “quiet transfer” in which it gradually makes life so difficult that families trickle out on their own.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which has been waging a legal battle on behalf of the residents of Masafer Yatta for more than two decades, has filed another petition against the Supreme Court ruling.
Roni Pelli, an attorney with the group, said the “terrible ruling” goes against international law, which prohibits the transfer of civilians out of occupied territory.
“The legal consequence is that international humanitarian law is no longer relevant in the West Bank because the military commander can issue any order he wants,” she said.
“You don’t have to put people on trucks to force them from the land,” she added. “I am really, really worried that it might become a humanitarian disaster.”
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this is a tall order, chidi. the "pro-israel" positions range from ultraorthodox positions that are truly repugnant to any but true blue believers, to rightwing anti arab conservatives like netanyahu and his supporters. j-street is a jewish advocacy group that is not anti-zionist, but that offers substantiaal criticisms of the israeli govts and their abuses.
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The opening of the article sounded too emotional to me, which substantially reduced its credibility in my opinion.
I am however of the opinion that if it is feasible at this point in time, let us have a pro-Israel perspective on same matter posted here for proper comparative assessment of the issues raised.
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Professor Ken,
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The opening of the article sounded too emotional to me, which substantially reduced its credibility in my opinion.
I am however of the opinion that if it is feasible at this point in time, let us have a pro-Israel perspective on same matter posted here for proper comparative assessment of the issues raised.
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gloria,is it censorship that is in question?if you don't agree with parts of a posting, why not indicate your differences? otherwise, we, the readers, will assume you do agree with it, which is why you posted it.unlike most american liberals, i do believe in censorship.i don't believe unfettered speech does not come at a cost.two parts to this: if you were libeled, would you not protest that the speech was not only wrong, but damaged you? if it did damage you--say destroyed your reputation, cost you your job or a publication or anything, wouldn't you object or sue to recover the damages?i believe the libels used against the jews over the centuries damaged us. it incited people to kill us, from the blood llibels of the middlle ages down to hitler's propaganda.i believe the libels used by radio mille ccollines in kigali damaged tutsis and incited the genocide against them. clinton objected to bombing that radio station since americans are against censorship. whaat hypocrisy; what death followed.personal libel; libel against a people, both can cause irreparable harm.
well, i agree we want to counter libel with truthful ripostes; but i do not believe all speech can be uttered without doing harm, and that it should be subject to limits. meaning censorship.our moderator apparently will not tolerate us libeling and screaming aat each other oon this list. who would want to continue to contribute if they were personally attacked?ken
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Ken points to three approaches and critics ,namely:
A. Ultra - conservative orthodoxB. Anti- Arab conservativeC. Critical moderate
Add to that:D. Radical anti-Zionist (Peled etc.)
Hearing the views of each of thesecould only be a plus. Why not?I agree with CAO. Ken should elaborateon A, B and C, or post articles thatrepresent one or two of the above.Posting an ultra conservative piecedoes not automatically imply thatyou agree with it.
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Professor Ken,
Why is it such "a tall order" to also have a detailed pro-Israel perspective on the matter to enable us comparatively assess the the issues raised better?
With an open mind, we can find it, the same way we are able to find this one under reference.
this is a tall order, chidi. the "pro-israel" positions range from ultraorthodox positions that are truly repugnant to any but true blue believers, to rightwing anti arab conservatives like netanyahu and his supporters. j-street is a jewish advocacy group that is not anti-zionist, but that offers substantiaal criticisms of the israeli govts and their abuses.
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The opening of the article sounded too emotional to me, which substantially reduced its credibility in my opinion.
I am however of the opinion that if it is feasible at this point in time, let us have a pro-Israel perspective on same matter posted here for proper comparative assessment of the issues raised.
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dear chidi, i am sorry if my use of censorship horrified you. let me try to rephrase it. i do not believe in an american notion of free speech where i have the right to say anything, any time, any where. my concern is not "shouting fire in a theatre," but actually causing harm by saying things about other people. i believe that kind of speech should be limited, and people who violate it should be stopped and punished. an example here in europe, anad in canada, is holocaust denial, the idea being that you cause real harm by denying the existence of the holocaust.
if you attempt to stop such speech, and not simply punish it after it has been uttered, you are censoring the speech. i gave the example of radio mille collines, where hutu nationalists in rwanda were urging the people to kill tutsis (to "shorten" their legs, i.e., cut them down with machetes, and "send them home" via the river, i.e. kill them and throw them in the river. a genocide followed. i believe that speech should have been stopped. not simply punished, but stopped. is that not censorship? if you have a better term to describe it, fine with me. i don't think i woulld extent this concept to stopping people from saying what they want in books or films, as the effect there would no doubt be too mitigated, too mediated and indirect to cause direct harm.
further to your point: it isn't simply a question of your retracting an accusation of thievery against someone who isn't a thief. presumably you caused harm to that person, and should be forced to compensate them for the harm. the intended effect is to censor your speech. you can think what you want, but causing harm goes beyond simple expressions of opinion.
what do you think?ken
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Antisemites are a dime a dozen. They are everywhere passionately mouthing their motto of hatred.
Genesis 12:3 has no meaning for them.
As the Quran puts it, “In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has alerted us to ” The danger of a single story”. So, while e.g. Professor Gloria Emeagwali is so whole heartedly tuned in to the Palestinian narrative I suggest that for balance, even just once on a while she could tune in to MEMRI and occasionally also to a few Israeli Arab commentators…
The timing of the latest imbroglio - this time between the IDF and Islamic Jihad was particularly distressing since the conflict flared during the saddest day of the Jewish Calendar the day on which all manner of catastrophe such as the destruction of the 1st and and Temple, befell the Jewish people, namely on the 9th of Av and the fast of Tisha B'Av
Understandably, and not surprisingly, Brother Chidi a poet and social activist of sound conscience is aghast at the thought of any higher ecclesiastical power, frivolous or inept government wanting to muzzle his pen , curtail his or anybody else’s freedom of speech in the name of so called “censorship”
In the past few years, on and off, Sam Harris and Mark Steyn - and indeed David Horowitz too ( of Freedom Center fame ) have been weighing in on this issue. Most most recently, once again Professor Porter has been trying to bring Rishi Sunak to some kind of order - and here too I’m sure that most of the academics in this series will be inclined to agree with what Professor Porter has to say here in “ Rishi and Gradgrind “, whereas Cornelius Ignoramus Agrippa is inclined to fully agree with Rishi and perhaps all the Rishis of India and with sages such as Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj - that the mere time wasting study of an unproductive subject such as e.g. theology which does not lead to “enlightenment” or produce the much needed electricity should be either banned in developing countries like Nigeria or such studies should be entirely financed by God and or the missionary societies in question…
I presume that Baba Kadiri on the other hand would be vehemently advocating that the study of Marxism as a branch of Philosophy ( with all its theological attributes) should be financed by the Nigerian Government,,,
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Biden and Israel (Mike Peled)Ken points to three approaches and critics ,namely:
A. Ultra - conservative orthodoxB. Anti- Arab conservativeC. Critical moderate
Add to that:D. Radical anti-Zionist (Peled etc.)
Hearing the views of each of thesecould only be a plus. Why not?I agree with CAO. Ken should elaborateon A, B and C, or post articles thatrepresent one or two of the above.Posting an ultra conservative piecedoes not automatically imply thatyou agree with it.
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Professor Ken,
Why is it such "a tall order" to also have a detailed pro-Israel perspective on the matter to enable us comparatively assess the the issues raised better?
With an open mind, we can find it, the same way we are able to find this one under reference.
this is a tall order, chidi. the "pro-israel" positions range from ultraorthodox positions that are truly repugnant to any but true blue believers, to rightwing anti arab conservatives like netanyahu and his supporters. j-street is a jewish advocacy group that is not anti-zionist, but that offers substantiaal criticisms of the israeli govts and their abuses.
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Professor Ken,
Why is it such "a tall order" to also have a detailed pro-Israel perspective on the matter to enable us comparatively assess the the issues raised better?
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this is a tall order, chidi. the "pro-israel" positions range from ultraorthodox positions that are truly repugnant to any but true blue believers, to rightwing anti arab conservatives like netanyahu and his supporters. j-street is a jewish advocacy group that is not anti-zionist, but that offers substantiaal criticisms of the israeli govts and their abuses.
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Dear Everybody here who believes in the sanctity of life,
Just listen to what Abdel Bari Atwan has to say about Joe Biden’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia, to beg for oil, in this excerpt “ Biden has lost the plot”
Take note that it was after Biden’s visit and in the context of the forthcoming elections in Israel to choose a new government that this thread is getting a little longer.
Before the unexpected avalanche of antisemitism and some of the political passions and frustrations disguised , masquerading and camouflaged as “anti-Zionism “ descends on this forum, I should like to point out that the latest military operation against the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad on at the cusp of what’s known as the Day of Ashura, was described as a “pre-emptive strike” - by the IDF.
The fact is, that whether the anti-Semite, the anti-Zionist, the Boko Haram terrorist or the self-hating Jew likes it or not, if Israel , acting on critical intelligence , did not act in time, on all fronts - if Israel's security apparatus were to be lax for just 24 hours - instantaneously - Israel’s security situation would degenerate into something worse than the nightmare playing out as Nigeria insecurity situation to which the whole nations is being held hostage and will continue crying about, in the months and weeks leading up to the Nigerian Presidential Elections scheduled to be staged on 25 February, 2023
Ndongoy Daara.
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Shalom!
Inseparable: God, the Torah, the People of Israel, the Land of Israel
Israel is here to stay.
Here’s the Nobel Laureate addressing the doubters :
“God don't make promises that He don't keep
You got some big dreams baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep.”
Call all of the above propaganda if you will.
I don’t think that you are I or Baba Kadiri or Professor Gloria Emeagwalior Tony Adepoju or Ojogbon Falola himself have to go through or imagine the emotional trauma in order “ to try to portray the Palestinian view as if we were Palestinian Arabs whose lands and homes were taken away”.
It seems to me that even back then Modern Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion could “envisage how the Palestinians are now feeling.” when he enunciated what sounds like a policy statement that’s being implemented up till to this very last military operation agist Islamic Jihad - the policy of stand firm or you’re going to feed worm.
David Ben Gurion speaking.
"I don't understand your optimism. Why should the Arabs make peace? If I were an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it's true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance." So, it's simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our whole policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out. “ ( https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/186534 )
About the Palestinian resistance and resilience, which has and is being maintained through several generations now, we have to understand that the Hebrew Bible is not part of the program of incitement or of the indoctrination being taught in Palestinian schools
In today’s discourse, Hashem’s promises in the Hebrew Bible seem to have evaporated and receded into the clouds atop of Mt.Sinai, the conquest by Joshua into the mists of myths and legends.
About 35 years ago, during the lunch break at the restaurant, uninvited, by way of self-introduction - I didn’t know her from Adam, a huge, big-waisted Palestinian woman plumped herself down in front of me and without any further ado or “good greetings'' started screeching that after many excavations “they'' still could not find any Temple of Solomon in Yerushalayim because it had never existed, and how did I like that?
It’s a premiere subject that is still being discussed, and debated, ad nauseam as the greedy Palestinians incrementally lose more of the Holy Land that was partitioned to them according to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
Gaza was being administered by Egypt and the so-called West Bank by Jordan.
Several Arab-Israel wars later, history is still in the making. Today, Egypt would not like to administer Gaza, and of course, the Hashemite Kindom of Jordon is quite nervous about potentially being overpopulated by so-called “ Palestinian “ Arabs, To complicate matters even further a good Wahabi Palestinian friend of mine is constantly foaming at the mouth that when push comes to shove, he prefers the Jews to the Shia, any day….
The eloquent Afif Safieh has said it all, over the years, culminating in his 2005 publication The Peace Process: From Breakthrough to Breakdown
Dear Chidi,
Just because Boko Haram has not come that far South yet doesn’t mean that you shouldn't take extra precautions to stay out of harm’s way in the Garden City of Port Harcourt.
I just heard some horrifying news about deadly demonstrations in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Please permit me to make this correction of what was jumbled up ( the usual jumbo - mumbo) in my previous post to Rabbi Harrow, which should read
“I don’t think that you or me, or Baba Kadiri or Professor Gloria Emeagwal or Tony Adepoju or the Rt. Hon. Ojogbon Falola himself have to go through or imagine their emotional traumas in order to - your words, “ to try to portray the Palestinian view as if we were Palestinian Arabs whose lands and homes were taken away”.
As the saying goes, “The devil is in the details”
I don’t know exactly how the resolution translates into Arabic, but thanks anyway, for bringing up the phrase “occupied territories” because it’s a moot point and there’s still a lot of ongoing tittle-tattle about the exact meaning and interpretation and therefore the implementation of the fine print and the exact wording of UN Resolution 242 which in simple English requires in more general and less precise terms that Israel should withdraw from “occupied territories” and not specifically from “ the occupied territories” - a world of difference when such a document is left to the tender mercies of some competent English Language specialist lawyers to point out the difference between “ occupied territories” and the specificity of “ the occupied territories”. The sub-question - which territories?
A while back one had a more precise understanding of e.g Alan Dershowitz’s take on Resolution 242
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