Ken Burch
1 min readOct 31, 2023

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Ok. Everything you've posted in this exchange has been the hasbara "line"- you've displayed no independence of thought or phraseology whatsoever.

You clearly aren't in support of anything remotely like a peaceful conclusion to the Israel/Palestine conflict- if you wanted peace, you wouldn't think it was possible to end the conflict by rejecting the Palestinian fact and Palestinian identity, by demanding that Palestinians agree that they aren't real and have no valid grievances against Israel, thar they admit- contrary to truth- that they are driven by antisemitism, and that they accept not getting self-determination or anything other than the back of the IDF'S hand.

Given that no conflict on the planet has ended on such terms since World War Ii, and given that it is impossible to end this conflict without some form of territorial compromise in which nobody is expected to play the role of the losing, humiliated side, and given that the majority of Palestinians who weren't born when that one election was held bear no responsibility for anything Hamas and have nothing in common with the people of either Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan, why would you hold to such beliefs unless you just don't want this conflict to ever end at all?

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Ken Burch
Ken Burch

Written by Ken Burch

Retired Alaska ferryboat steward, grandparent, sometime poet. Radical yet independent of dogma. Likes nice days, playing banjo and not as yet dying of Covid.

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