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Peace in the Middle East is impossible as long as Netanyahu remains in power.
In a recent piece in the New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/opinion/israel-gaza-conflict.html?referringSource=articleShare ) Nicholas Kristof wrote,
“There is no doubt that Hamas committed war crimes in shelling Israeli civilians. But most scholars believe that Israel also committed war crimes with its attacks on Gaza that were far more lethal to civilians than attacks by Hamas….A basic principle of getting out of a hole is to stop digging. A basic principle of peace-building is to stop committing war crimes. That’s the only path to making insoluble problems solvable.”
Kristof goes on to write “Every time Hamas shells Israel, it makes a solution less likely. And every time Israel grabs more land or kills more children, it likewise makes peace less achievable. Extremists on each side empower those on the other” and in that one sentence Kristof captures the essence of what is making the current fighting between Israelis and Palestinians “insoluble”, Extremists!
Many consider Ismail Haniyeh,senior political leader of Hamas, to be a terrorist but many others consider Benjamin Netanyahu to be a terrorist as well. After all it was Netanyahu who ordered the Israeli air raid that demolished al-Jalaa tower, which hosted many residential apartments and…
