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Bigotry Feeds on Ignorance When It Comes to Hatred of Israel
(Belfast Telegraph-UK) Ruth Dudley Edwards - Hundreds of fans of the Scottish team Celtic flew Palestinian flags at a soccer match against the Israeli team Hapoel Beer Sheva in Glasgow on Aug. 17, defying a UEFA ban on "gestures, words, objects or any other means to transmit any message of an ideological, religious, offensive or provocative nature." Israel is a fine country which contributes mightily to the world, culturally, scientifically, technologically and in many other ways, while being in the Middle East a model of democracy and religious tolerance where women and gays can live like free people. I'm desperately sorry for most Palestinians, but their miserable plight is mainly the fault of bigoted and callous leaders who at every turn have blocked a two-state solution with a Jewish state of Israel and an Arab state of Palestine living side by side in peace.