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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
You guys seem to want to deliberately misunderstand everything.
When I said that, I was quoting what Hamas have already claimed. That’s what I meant, and you must know that.
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If everybody is misunderstanding you, I suggest the fault is more likely to be at your end.
The remedy is quite simple. If you are indeed quoting someone, put their actual words in quotation marks and include a link to the source.
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Originally Posted by jfman
Biden visiting on Wednesday (I think still a rumour) suggests the penny is finally dropping.
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Interesting piece in the FT about the US approach.
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But the best chance of mitigating the suffering of Palestinian civilians is to start from an understanding that Israel itself has just suffered an unprecedented tragedy and has the right and obligation to ensure its own security. This is a policy that one senior US official calls: “hug them close”. He describes Israel as “traumatised and frightened”. “We need to present this as a situation that we are facing together and that we can work on together,” says the official.
The White House thinks that only then will Joe Biden get a hearing when he makes public statements about the need for Israel to respect the laws of war and to protect civilian lives. In private, politicians can then press Israel about the most urgent humanitarian priorities, such as the restoration of electricity and water in Gaza.
That approach reflects a realistic understanding of Israeli society. The Jewish state is founded on the premise that antisemitism is global and ineradicable — and that no one will save the Jews except the Jews themselves. If, at this traumatic moment, foreigners arrive in Israel with lectures rather than deep and genuine sympathy they will not be listened to. The Israeli government and wider society will simply be confirmed in their view that they need to shut out the voices from a hostile world — and concentrate on the battle for their own survival.
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https://www.ft.com/content/e0a6da0f-...2-92f2b578febf