Retribution in the Israel-Hamas War
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Retribution in the Israel-Hamas War
In the midst of all of that, the Arab world is moving on. The new game in town is Saudi-Israel normalization. The two-state solution is off the table. Palestinian freedom is off the table. Washington is distracted with other issues; it’s not a priority. So I think all of those are the context in which they’re saying, “Look, right now, Palestinians ... See more
Amy Mackinnon • ‘Palestinians Live in a State of Despair’
It was a profound national crisis; Begin established the Kahan Commission to determine whether Israel was responsible for the massacre.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
A formal note of apology and explanation was sent to King Abdullah. Indeed, the Deir Yassin massacre certainly contributed to the controversial decision by David Ben-Gurion—Israel’s first prime minister—to disarm, by force, these paramilitary groups in June 1948. But the effect of Deir Yassin, and the publicity surrounding it, was clearly to provok
... See moreAlan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
Palestinian propagandists understand and exploit the reality that decent people become outraged at the killing of a child and often do not pause to move the blame beyond the side that fired the fatal shot toward the side that deliberately placed the child in harm’s way.