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Jewish Supporters of the Palestinian Cause Have Been Played

(Jewish News-UK) Andrew Garfield - What I have seen on peace missions to the West Bank has shifted my views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have become steadily more convinced that I and other Jews who have lent their support to the Palestinian cause are being played. No one wants to face up to the fact that the majority of Palestinians and their noisy backers worldwide are still holding out for a maximalist solution in which the clock goes back not to 1967 but to pre-1948, if not further. Even the more moderate Palestinian leadership struggles to accept any legitimacy in Jewish claims to the land. They cling to the mistaken view that Israel is a foreign implant which will either weaken of its own accord and suffer internal strife or lose the support of the West and collapse. Hamas has successfully undermined every peace initiative over the last 40 years and terrorized its own population into refusing any kind of idea of peaceful coexistence. The destruction of the peaceful communities in the Gaza envelope and the brutality wrought on the peace activists living there, in particular, were, for many, the final straw. While Western media daily fuel the narrative of Israeli villainy, Israelis haven't been so quick to forget the crowds who gathered in Gaza to cheer the arrival of the bloody hostages on Oct. 7. Recent hostage testimony about fears of being lynched by "innocent Gazan" civilians, or the torture and sexual abuse meted out by their captors, has hardened determination to avoid a ceasefire which leaves Hamas in place. Israelis are tough, but they have had to be. If they had always played nice and done what they were told, Israel would never have come into existence, let alone survived to forge the start-up nation that is more prosperous and happier than the UK is today. In 2000, in Camp David, Israel offered the Palestinians everything they were supposed to be demanding. The response was the Second Intifada, in which thousands of Israelis (and Palestinians) were killed.
2025-06-08 00:00:00
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