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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be happy to get on board with recognizing Palestine if Hamas surrendered. Right now, if Hamas prevailed, it would mean that you can gain statehood by slaughtering your neighbors. I can't get on board with that. I don't like what's going on in Palestine, but it's not like the violence would end if we recognized Palestine and Israel backed down. All that would change is that the violence would be in both directions. It really, really sucks that innocent people are being harmed by this, but I can't see how handing a terrorist organization a nation is the right path forward for peace. If anyone can explain it to me calmly, without calling me names, I am open to hearing because I genuinely don't understand. Right now, the argument is just "people are starving"-- which is bad, but how does statehood or Israel backing down reduce the violence when we know full well that Hamas and Iran want to continue it? [/quote]
So Israel has legitimized itself by committing violence against the Palestinians, but the Palestinians are delegitimizing themselves by standing up to the violence? Got it. I realize that the justification for stealing their land is that a magical man in the sky says you deserve to, but maybe think critically for a minute. [/quote]

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