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Susan Linehan's avatar

he makes a good point. At the very LEAST the initial response should have been "why do you think genocide is part of intifada in general? Are you in agreement with Hamas, a group of about 30K people out of billions in the world as to the definition? Or are you just making up a definition in aid of making a "gotcha."

Stefanik also referred to this as the Israeli ARAB war. Last I heard there were a whole lot of Arabs who deplore it, and in the case of Qatar are actively working to resolve it.

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David Levine's avatar

I used to make the same mistake of conflating Palestinians with Arabs (or Muslims, for that matter). then I found myself working with a woman who was a very angry Palestinian and an absurdly devout Catholic. I mean the kind of Catholic who thought that prick Ratzinger needed to be loved BECAUSE he'd been elected Pope.

worst of all, she wouldn't go out with me...

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