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Elizabeth Woodworth's avatar

The most serious and responsible of writers will revise what they have said, in this manner.

Thank you so much for the clarification!

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Annette Huenke's avatar

I despaired at your omissions, Charles. Thank you for what you have corrected, but I think you may want to go further. Why did you choose to rewind their history for only two generations? Why not go back to the illegitimate colonial project of British elites and a handful of Zionists to dispossess the Palestinians of their ancestral home? Why should Palestinians pay the price for the millennia of maltreatment of Jews? Half of Gaza’s residents are children who had nothing to do with the ascendancy of Hamas, or any other governing body, for that matter.

For god’s sake, here in America millions of people actively working to hold government to account appear to have no agency whatsoever. What do you expect the largely unemployed, undereducated, underfed (purposely, by Israel) masses of Gaza to do about ‘their’ leadership? You acknowledge awareness of the bloodbath that took place during the 2018 March of Return. Do you suggest they should have attempted an encore in preference to armed resistance? What options did they have? I would suggest none.

"By not including this and many, many other nonviolent peace actions in my description of the policies of the Palestinian leadership, I created a false impression that they have only attempted violence.”

By saying next to nothing about the countless violent actions Israelis and their government have taken against the people of Palestine over the last 75 years, you spoke volumes. Gideon Levy, Norman Finkelstein and a bare handful of other Jews seeking justice could not have been so remiss.

RFK has gone well beyond taking sides — he has chosen his masters. His recent ahistorical rhetoric is shockingly unmoored from-reality. When he promised us he would listen, we did not think he meant to The Lobby.

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