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To: Elroy who wrote (199894)3/21/2007 4:41:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793805
 
That's like saying the Confederacy had a right to exist because the Union had the chioce between war and peaceful coexistence. In other words, it doesn't make sense. A choice between peaceful coexistence and war does not give an entity a right to exist.

I don't think you quite got the point. The point was that either Hamas denies Israel's right to exist, and thus chooses perpetual war, or accepts Israel's right to exist and chooses peaceful coexistence.

Similarly, the Union denied the Confederacy's right to exist, and thus chose war. But nobody ever tried to deny that this was a deliberate choice on the part of President Lincoln and the Federal Government.

The refusal to recognize Israel and deal with reality is Hamas' choice, and it is the basic driver of the conflict, and has been since all the Arab states refused to recognize Israel in 1948.

What Rashid Khalidi and other Pal apologists deny is the Palestinian's moral agency in the conflict, the choices that they have made, and results that have followed. To Rashid Khalidi, indeed for the BBC and all the Euro press, the Pals never made a choice of their own that isn't the fault of the Zionists. They are defined as pure victims caught in reactions they couldn't possibly help. Only the Israelis made choices.
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