Reply #216: Hanania also blasted Flotilla 1 just hours after the Marmara incident... [View All]

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http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=177176

Both sides are at fault in this confrontation. The activists are against peace, and want Israel to turn the clock back to 1948, while Israel wants to pretend the Palestinians don’t exist.

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When Palestinians and Israelis were negotiating, they were opposing the Oslo Accords, doing everything they could to stop them. And they stood by while Hamas, a terrorist organization which is also partly to blame for the suffering of the citizens of the Gaza Strip, used suicide bombings and brainwashed teenagers to kill themselves and to take innocent Israeli civilians with them.

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The activists who openly denounce Israeli military excesses are silent when it comes to Hamas excesses.