CLEARINGS AND STRIVINGS

Let’s start by busting one all-too-common assumption.
The ‘Palestinians’ are not guiltless. Not at all.
The earliest mass murder of Jews which I remember reading about in Eretz Israel took place in 1834. I believe it was in Safed. There might have been a pogrom in Hebron at about the same time.
This was when most Jews in Europe still had faith in assimilation and the Jews living among their Muslim/Arab cousins were viewed as were ‘common n***ers’ in the Jim Crow USA as a whole, not to mention the Jim Crow South as the heart of that evil mindset and practice!
And that mentality is still all too prevalent among Arabs, both Muslims and Christians, in that part of the Middle East. Arabs only started speaking of ‘Palestine’ in 1968, after Israel won it all in the Six-Day War.
One Arab said in 1938, “This is our land, it is South Syria, and the Jews are our dogs.”
Not to mention the uncharged war criminal who was Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, who helped Hitler and hoped to build extermination camps in the Dothan valley. Or Zahir Muhsein, who in a 1977 interview for Trouw magazine, admitted that all the talk of ‘liberating Palestine’ was just that: talk. He, too, referred to the area as ‘South Syria’. And Hamas has to be utterly destroyed.
The really tough question is, is Israel acting in such a way as to do that successfully? And so far, no one I know has a really satisfactory answer. Making Gaza itself into a bigger pile of rubble than it was already seems to have a very limited utility, especially since too many of the cowards who lead Hamas, and their families, are safely and…