freediver wrote on May 16
th, 2021 at 10:30am:
Are you suggesting Hamas is not contemptible? Or that it is easy to identify that they are contemptible?
Hamas cynically exploited the forced evictions of Palestinians from their homes to initiate a full-blown intifada.
After 75 years of this, I don't believe it's possible to imagine a resolution to the Israel/Palestine such that the two can co-exist sharing the same land or even existing adjacently.
God and religion have as much to do with it as the Catholic / Protestant divide in Northern Ireland, which is to say, while it may be superficially predicated on them, they no longer necessarily need to be invoked for the lethal divide to persist.
Two great causes of 'right' that are irreconcilable and unresolvable, leaving only a protracted war of attrition as the only likely outcome.