Voices of sanity, and reason, are in too short supply, and in constant danger of being drowned out by the rhetoricians of all-out war.
“When violence answers violence in a growing frenzy that makes the simple language of reason impossible, the role of the intellectual cannot be... to excuse from a distance one of the violences and condemn the other... that role is clarify definitions in order to disintoxicate minds and to calm fanaticisms, even when this is against the current tendency.” –Albert Camus, “Preface to Algerian Reports” I am no expert on Middle East politics.
For Hamas is not the Nazis, and the Gaza Strip is not Nazi Germany, and Israel is not the Warsaw Ghetto, and Hamas’s terrorism—cruel, violent, despicable—is not directed towards a Jewish minority, but towards the state of Israel and its Jewish majority, a powerful state that bears no comparison to the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide. Hamas’s anti-Semitism is beyond doubt, and it is proudly proclaimed in its 1988 Covenant.
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