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The Choices Palestinians Make

(Gatestone Institute) Dexter Van Zile - Perhaps it is time to confront Palestinians with the choice they face: They can keep trying to deny the Jewish people their right to a sovereign state, or they can make peace and get a state of their own; they cannot do both. If Palestinians are interested in making peace, perhaps they need to start earning the trust of the Israelis, bring an end to incitement, educate their children for peace instead of murder, and begin building a future for themselves and their children without blaming Israel for every setback they endure. In The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary (2016), Palestinian writer Atef Abu Saif provides a powerful first-person narrative of the suffering endured by the Palestinians living in Gaza during the 2014 war. But his statement that the Israelis were the only ones responsible is simply false. A lot of bad choices were made - by Palestinians - and Saif knows it. The reality is that Hamas bears a huge measure of responsibility for the suffering he documents. Hamas has repeatedly started wars that it cannot win against a country that cannot afford to lose. All too often, Palestinian deaths are used to shut down the conversation about what Palestinian leaders have done wrong and about the underlying causes of the conflict. The writer is a media analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
2017-02-07 00:00:00
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