Debunking Myths About Israel & Palestine

I carried a sign that read “Free Gaza from Hamas,” because even though I am pro-Israel, I am also pro-Palestinian, just anti-Hamas, a terrorist organization which aims to annihilate Israel, and which uses international aid money to build attack tunnels instead of schools and hospitals.

majority wanted to see the Palestinians enjoy the right to self-determination, but not at the cost of denying Israelis the most fundamental right: to life. They looked around the Middle East and saw the overthrow of corrupt, nonelected Arab rulers and their replacement by Islamist radicals.

This conveniently leaves out the fact that the United Nations granted the Jews a return to their ancestral homeland after the Jewish people were nearly destroyed in the Holocaust; that Israel agreed to the UN Partition Plan for Statehood; that the Arabs refused it and attacked the new Jewish state in order to destroy it. There was literally zero sy

coherent Palestinian identity, and the ability of the Palestinian people to clearly define for themselves who they are, what they want, and what values they stand for, is of course crucial for the security of Israel, the region, and the rest of the world, but it is mostly crucial for the future of the Palestinians themselves. The Palestinians must