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Originally Posted by DanaC
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
None of us are there. We are all outsiders to this bloody mess. The news we watch is skewed (whichever direction) and the situation so mind-numbingly complicated with politics, personality, vengeance and power (on both sides) that we cannot hope to have a clear picture until the history books are being written in fifty years time, or a hundred.
It is good that pierce will come here and state the other side of the argument. Were it not for Pierce and a couple of others, we would only see one side here. That cannot help anybody's understanding. In such a fraught setting, there are no clean hands. All we are doing here is arguing gradations of blood and dirt. Those who are truly friends to Israel should hear what the Palestinians are screaming. Those truly friend to Palestine, should listen to Israeli cries.
It is not yet time for them to hear each other. Those of us outside and removed have a duty to hear them both.
And that really is the last thing I post in this thread.
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Well said. And the people we should actually be listening to, are the ones in the middle. There are LOTS of Israeli Jews who do not support what their government does, just as there are lots of Palestinians who do not support what Hamas does.