ate with and expand and globalize the Palestinian cause of no Jewish state – whether they were the Nazis in the 1930’s and 40’s, the Pan-Arabists of the 1950’s and 60’s, the Soviets of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s, the Sunni Jihadists of the 1990’s and early 2000’s – have all found themselves in the dustbin of history. That is because Antizionism and an obsession with the collective Jew is always, but always, the mark of failed societies ideologies.
There is a path to peace, and it is based on the deep transformation of the Palestinian ethos away from destruction and toward construction, away from the mistaken notion of the Jews as foreigners in this land, and toward the Abrahamic understanding of Jews as belonging in the land, and of Zionism as the realization of the millennia long connection between the Jewish people and their ancestral homeland.
This may be a tall order. It may be challenging. There is no guarantee it can be achieved. But one thing is guaranteed: wishing reality away and failing to confront it will definitely not lead to peace.
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