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Most Palestinians Still View the Oct. 7 Massacre as a Triumph
(JNS) Dr. Fiamma Nirenstein - According to a recent survey by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 53% of Palestinians still believe that the decision to carry out the Oct. 7 massacre was "correct," including 59% of Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority. 53% oppose the concept of a two-state solution. These numbers represent a society still enthralled by the myth of "resistance," not the idea of coexistence. Shany Mor writes of the intoxication of violence. This was visible on Oct. 7, in videos of young men calling their parents to boast about killing Jews with their own hands, and in the mobs cheering as kidnapped Israeli girls were paraded through Gaza's streets. Even academics such as Cornell's Russell Rickford called the massacre "exhilarating." This mindset - rooted in the dream of expanding Dar al-Islam (the land of Islam) - turns every peace proposal into betrayal, and every act of terror into redemption. The much-discussed "deradicalization" needed for a peace process is nowhere in sight. The obstacle is the Palestinian culture of hatred. The writer, a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, served as vice president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.