View original postJ Street is poorly financed and organized compared to AIPAC. Moreover, half of them come across as starry-eyed communists with little understanding of how things really work, meaning they fundamentally misunderstand human nature.
You mean kind of like the nearly half of Democrats who voted for Bernie Sanders?
Yeah, their support is to a large extent young and idealistic, but still, American public opinion, and Jewish American public opinion, are more balanced than they used to be. View original postI don't know. Seems like Avigdor and even nastier types have the ears of plenty. I do however admit I haven't been following things closely for the last year or two. Also, the reduction of the terrorist threat is, in my mind, something of a byproduct of the general chaos across much of the region. Should things settle down somewhat and any form of political stability emerge, then I imagine Hamas's hardliners getting outside "help".
Lieberman has his moments of surprising reasonableness, and then the other moments. Part of that is his secularism and less doctrinal - but not less vehement - positions on the conflict and how to solve it. And part of it is just Naftali Bennett who makes both Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu look reasonable.
Not sure about your second point - it all depends on what the new regional political landscape will look like. At the moment, at least, the absolutist Sunni front of Saudi Arabia and its allies is dominating, and they hate the Muslim Brotherhood which Hamas remains to some extent associated with. As well as the Shi'ites who have provided support to Hamas in the past.
View original postHow so?
Most of the regular political posters here are more in favour of Israel's policies and loathe Hamas - so was expecting to have to criticize the former and defend the latter. To the limited extent that I'm willing to do that, anyway.
Why Now Is the Time to Talk to Hamas
- 02/05/2017 06:30:35 PM
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Since Eretz Israel is still Likud's aim, and AIPAC has turned Capitol Hill into another...
- 02/05/2017 07:22:09 PM
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There's more to Israel than Likud - and more to Capitol Hill than AIPAC.
- 02/05/2017 07:37:11 PM
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But it's the Likudniks, in both countries, who have such an outsized say in matters...
- 02/05/2017 08:07:11 PM
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For now.
- 02/05/2017 08:31:25 PM
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Hamas is still considered a terrorist group by the US and the EU.
- 02/05/2017 08:21:47 PM
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See, that's the kind of reply I was expecting.
- 02/05/2017 08:59:41 PM
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- 02/05/2017 08:59:41 PM
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Oh, I'd still talk to them. I just don't expect anything positive will occur with them.
- 02/05/2017 09:38:47 PM
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Depends on if you believe them or not
- 02/05/2017 08:38:19 PM
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Well, at a minimum, it's still the time to talk to them and see if they'll back up their words. *NM*
- 02/05/2017 09:01:02 PM
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What else can one expect from the Guardian?
- 03/05/2017 03:26:08 AM
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Yeah, how dare they give some Arab loser a space to publish an op-ed! Commie bastards!
- 03/05/2017 06:15:54 PM
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The Guardian really can't be taken seriously
- 03/05/2017 03:10:24 PM
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You mean unless Europe is willing to give up the United States of America?
- 03/05/2017 05:49:50 PM
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Fuck the Guardian. Who is supposed to talk with Hamas ?
- 03/05/2017 04:11:01 PM
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Which part of the word 'op-ed' do you all find so difficult to understand?
- 03/05/2017 05:24:00 PM
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