Hey, all you "critics of Israel:"
For years you've been saying that Hamas has moderated. That it changed its charter. That it accepted a two state solution. That it wanted peace. That if Israel would improve life in Gaza it would reciprocate with goodwill.
For years we "right-wing, extremist" Zionists have been telling you that you were wrong. Over and over again. (I admit that I thought that Hamas was interested in calm, but I never thought that it had changed its underlying philosophy.)
You disparaged those of us who insisted on calling Hamas terrorist as warmongers. You had "experts" to back you up, from the finest universities. You had former ambassadors. Human rights leaders. The best of the best. You all agreed, Hamas was moderating, and not the same Hamas as the 1988 Charter and the Sbarro massacre.
You considered us to be the obstacles to peace while you met with and welcomed Hamas leaders and invited them to write op-eds in the New York Times.
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Hamas fooled you. They knew that you projected onto them your own desire for peace, for a two state solution, for them to repeal their charter that calls for the genocide of all Jews. So they played you. And you fell for it, totally.
You were fatally wrong.
And your coddling Hamas for so long - barely condemning their rocket attacks, ignoring their many other war crimes, all while publishing thousands of pages of articles condemning Israel - showed the Palestinian terror groups and their Iranian sponsors that you were their useful idiot allies.
Yes, you have been de facto allies of the group that just murdered the most Jews in one day since Auschwitz.
You spent 95% of your time condemning the only state in the region that actually cares about human rights for all and only a token amount of time on the true evil that Hamas and the other Palestinian groups have made no secret of sponsoring and supporting. And, amazingly, you pretended that this was helping bring "peace."
You were dead wrong.
Do you have the slightest feelings of shame? Embarrassment? Or even maybe, responsibility?
Do you think for maybe a moment that since you were so spectacularly wrong about Hamas, maybe we "extremist Zionist fanatics" know more than you do on other issues?
Maybe you are even wrong with your obsessive demonizing of Israel as well. Maybe Israel really does follow real international law as understood by military experts, not wannabe experts from anti-Israel NGOs. Maybe Israel has done more to help Palestinians and Israeli Arabs live in dignity than you are reading about in The Nation.
Are you honest enough to admit when you are wrong?
Or will you continue to be wrong and keep pretending that you know what you are talking about?
We know the answer. Because your opinions on Israel have nothing to do with facts. You only choose the facts that support your preset theories and ignore the counter-evidence. You don't bother to read Arabic media. You accept the word of terrorists and their supporters without question but suspect everything any Israeli says to you.
We know this. We've seen this. And we know that you will justify your being wrong and not learn a thing. from it.
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