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Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

www.politico.eu Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation

Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the UN secretary-general addressed the 15-member UN Security Council Tuesday.

Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation
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  • There's not an Arab lockdown per se. Israeli Arabs are about as free as anyone in Israel. They're members of parliament, serve on the Israeli Supreme Court, all that.

    What is true, of course, is that Palestinian Arabs are basically stateless people who live in inhumane conditions with few freedoms and fewer opportunities for dignity. That's a real problem. I don't necessarily have a solution that they would accept though. To live in dignity and liberty, you need to live in peace. To live in peace, you need to accept that your neighbors have a right to exist.

    Hamas didn’t always exist, Hamas is a result of the conditions of the people.

    Race-hate has existed for a very long time. It isn't a result of the conditions of anyone.

    If Hamas were an insurgency against oppression, it would surely be active in the region's other far more oppressive landscapes.

    The narrative that oppressed people turn violent and that's what this violence is probably partially true, but it doesn't tell the whole story. Much of what fuels Hamas and the main reason the peace process is so challenging in the Middle East isn't the plight of oppressed people; it's plain old bigotry.

    If tomorrow, Israel announced that it is now a pacifist state, and it melted down all its weapons, disbanded the IDF, and issued Israeli passports to Palestinians, the result would be a thousand pogroms and millions dead.

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