Tex, let me explain the sentence that troubles you a little bit. If an Isreali says to me about the West Bank, "This land is mine, God gave it to me" (as in the theme song to that film Exodus), well, that just isn't enough. I'm going to ask for engagement in more reasoned, policy oriented, empirical discussion. The founding myth is important, but alone isn't enough to justify debatable or risky actions or positions by Israel, domestically and internationally. That's all.
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Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be.
—Paul Auster
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