{"id":2895,"date":"2002-09-17T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2002-09-17T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2002-09-17T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2002-09-17T21:02:21","slug":"some-good-stuff-is-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2895","title":{"rendered":"SOME GOOD STUFF IS HAPPENING"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u0092ve talked endlessly about the need for a \u0091moderate\u0092 Palestinian politics to step forward in order to have any chance of meaningful peace, and my belief that there was a substantial number of people living on the West Bank and in Gaza that weren\u0092t sold on the “Palestine from the river to the sea<\/u> or Death” meme.
\nThere have been some encouraging signs here<\/a> and here<\/a>. These are not conclusive, nor answers, but they are steps in what smells like a right direction.
\nCommenter Mostapha Sabet pointed this out:<\/p>\n

Something that bothered me is how a lot of people sort of blew off the Fatah announcement. Saying things like, “Oh, well the Pals don’t consider settlers civilians” or “They only said they would stop attacks on civilians not all targets” without recognizing that this may be one small step in the right direction, but it’s a huge step in the quest for peace. Now there is a somewhat major group (and growing in relative strength as IDF wipes up Hamas) that might actually prove to be a voice of reason. Let’s hope it sticks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is critically important, and goes to my apology to Ziska, because it is incredibly hard to fight against and opponent and still maintain their humanity, but it is necessary because someday the fight will be over<\/u>.
\nAram Rubyan<\/a> pointed out in a comment that I was wrong to apologize, inferring that humanizing the Palestinians was the wrong way to go.
\nI disagree. I think that Israel is right to use force to defend itself, and as long as the Palestinian leadership persists in propagating their evil \u0093River To The Sea\u0094 fantasy, that defense will be fierce. And the people on the sharp end of the spear will doubtless have feelings and attitudes about their opponents which are not humane and charitable and warm.
\nWhich is why it is important for the rest of us to do so. Because of our distance we can both fiercely defend Israel, as I have done \u0096 as far as words can go \u0096 and humanize and sympathize with the individual Palestinians who are trapped by bad leaders, evil allies, and damaged culture.
\nSomeday, this fight will be over. All fights are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u0092ve talked endlessly about the need for a \u0091moderate\u0092 Palestinian politics to step forward in order to have any chance of meaningful peace, and my belief that there was a substantial number of people living on the West Bank and in Gaza that weren\u0092t sold on the “Palestine from the river to the sea or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}