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miserable as possible. Its West Bank barrier is dismissed as an “Apartheid Wall” and its checkpoints as an excuse to abuse Arabs (not to prevent suicide bombings as both policies have been effective in doing). Death tolls are vacuously quoted without discussing the many measures Israel takes to minimize civilian casualties, nor how opposing militants recklessly endanger Palestinian civilians by firing rockets from homes and stockpiling weapons in schools. Hamas — the radical Islamist terrorist group that controls Gaza, carries out suicide bombings, executes gays and calls unapologetically in its charter for the annihilation of Israel and a mass slaughter of the Jews — is never even mentioned, let alone condemned,
and has even received lavish praise in previous years from speakers like Malik Ali. This is all meant to “prove” that the entirety of Israel (not just disputed West Bank territory) is an illegal “occupation” and therefore should not exist. Far from helping the Palestinian cause, these groups have done nothing but alienate potential allies on campus, manufacturing for themselves an echo-chamber of irrationality, uncritically championing ever more radical and impractical positions.
childish antics and to respectfully engage and ally with the very many students on this campus (Jewish, Muslim and others) interested in practically and justly resolving this conflict. — Nick Gallo is a second-year Ph. D student in the Department of Computer Science. His article originally appeared in the New University school newspaper. He can be reached at ngallo1@uci.edu
I am writing to urge my very passionate friends in the MSU and SJP to take a step back, to reconsider your missions, to abandon your
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