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great simplifiers are hard at work, but Israel/Palestine has never been a friendly environment for them, and it is especially unfriendly today. They are bound to get it wrong, morally and politically, and that is a very bad thing to do, for the stakes are high. There isn't one war going on in the Middle East, and there isn't a single opposition of right and wrong, just and unjust. Four Israeli-Palestinian wars are now in progress.
oThe first is a Palestinian war to destroy the state of Israel.
oThe second is a Palestinian war to create an independent state alongside Israel, ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
oThe third is an Israeli war for the security of Israel within the 1967 borders.
oThe fourth is an Israeli war for Greater Israel, for the settlements and the occupied territories.
It isn't easy to say which war is being fought at any given moment; in a sense, the fo...
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