[Pierre]

Originally Posted by ianch99

Of course, you cherry pick and ignore the posts where I unequivocally condemn Hamas as terrorists and that they should be eradicated. This is to be expected from one who is not open to debate and information illuminating both side of the conflict.

Yeah, you’re very careful….but

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Those who pay lip service about Hamas' atrocities but then shift the blame onto Israel or enthusiastically criticise Israel for its behaviour.

You stick with your "Israel good, Arabs bad" narrative if it comforts you.

Interesting that you throw that at me, which although simplistic, in this instance is fairly accurate.

Is it because you believe the exact opposite? I think I know the answer.

Meanwhile, back in the real world

- what is not that well known, mainly due to the loud voices screaming "Anti-Semitism!" when Israel is criticised, is that the governing party Likud has, as part of its charter, a rejection of an Arab state in the area:

Israel’s policy on statehood merits the same scrutiny as Hamas gets

So essentially neither Hamas or Israel want a two state solution, who’ of thought it.

By the way, I don’t think the author of article you posted is entirely objective.

He also authored this report

https://www.academia.edu/31751816/Is...he_Middle_East

In which he pulls some corkers

Comment: Israel claims to be the only democracy in the region, but its institutional racism demonstrates the state's tangential grasp on reality

given that Israel's founding entailed the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs

Even if we ignore Israel's ongoing excesses in "mowing the lawn" in the Gaza Strip - that is, the periodic and deliberate use of disproportionate force aimed at flattening everything in sight

That’s just from the first three paragraphs, from a 4 page anti-Israel diatribe. Apt .