astralis
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that is where you are wrong. they simultaneously refuse to recognize the legitimacy of israel, AND they wish for its destruction, using the term "zionist entity" to substitute for the illegitimate state in question.
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Define "destruction" as you are using it. Do you mean they wish to see the land scorched and burnt? Or do you mean they wish to see the land where the state of "Israel" now is become some other state? What do you mean?
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and for most of that time, a precondition for the two-state solution was the right of return, which would mean the destruction of the israeli state, as zfboxcar has pointed out.
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By "destruction" you mean a dramatic alteration of its demographics? Why do you reject the right of people forcibly expelled from their homeland to return to it? If someone kicked you out of your house, would you have no right to ever return to it and reclaim what is yours?
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also, the way hamas has tried to phrase any agreements with the "zionist entity" is via that of a "long-term truce", NOT peace. that includes the "near agreement" you stated above, which was then followed by hamas kidnapping an israeli soldier (and hezbollah doing the same). try to get the order of action right...because the last statement was disingenuous.
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Actually, it's you who need to get your order of events straight. Israel had invaded Gaza early in the summer. On June 24th, they kidnapped a doctor, Dr. Osama Muantar, and his brother, Mustafa, and, presumably, placed them with the thousands of other Palestinians languishing without charge in Israeli jails. The next day, Hamas militants captured Corporal Gilad Shalit.
Israeli violence escalated. Israel bombed Gaza, including the only power plant (a war crime), and blocked humanitarian assistance. They also kidnapped elected members of the Palestinian government to hold as "bargaining chips", thus, as I said, putting an end to the agreement between Hamas and Fatah to hold a referendum implicitly recognizing the state of Israel confined to the green line.
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these other goals vary from the destruction of the israeli state...
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You mean the insistence on the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
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the only even remotely "terrorist" method of coercion that israel uses ...
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Checkpoints are not the "only" method of coercion. There is the daily violence, the shootings, the bombings, the destruction of homes, the destruction of orchards, the daily humiliations, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, the kidnappings, etc.
Again, it's the pirate and the emperor. Suicide bombings are horrendous crimes, but they pale in comparison with the crimes commited by Israel. A simple look at the number of Palestinians murdered compared with the number of Israelis murdered is enough to demonstrate that point. Take the violence this summer, from the end of June through September. 43 Israeli civilians had been killed. The number of Lebanese civilians killed (not including Palestinians) was over 1000. That's around 23 murdered Lebanese for every murdered Israeli.
It's the pirate and the emperor. The pirates crimes a real, and they are horrible. But they pale in comparison with the emperor's.
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What do you suggest they do, write petetion to the governments that pushed them out and absorbed all their property and cash?
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The question is tangential to the point, which is that we should recognize the grievances of and support the rights of people who have had injustices commited against them, be they Jew or Arab or otherwise, rather than denying their rights and supporting the injustices against them.
That's a rather elementary moral truism. It should hardly require an explanation.