It surely does a disservice to any culture to allow the violent and venal villains who usually compose dictatorships to speak on behalf of their people. With the Palestinian people, our whole identity is often assumed to be bound up with the anti-Western, violent ideology promulgated by Yasser…
It surely does a disservice to any culture to allow the violent and venal villains who usually compose dictatorships to speak on behalf of their people. With the Palestinian people, our whole identity is often assumed to be bound up with the anti-Western, violent ideology promulgated by Yasser Arafat and his proteges.
Hatred and radicalism harm Palestinians and do nothing to advance our cause. What is needed is a commitment to peace. Just consider the negative effects that advocates such as Sheehi have on my people. When several Jewish and Israeli students in GWU’s graduate psychology program took a mandatory diversity course with Sheehi, they were astonished at how they were treated.
Sheehi’s actions do not and should not represent the Palestinian people, the good men and women I know who respect our neighbors and wish for an end to these endless cycles of violence. Those of us there see how peace, economic opportunity, and cooperation benefit both Palestinians and Israelis, just as the normalization of political and economic cooperation with Israel has brought tremendous advantages to countries such as the United Arab Emirates. This is what most Palestinians want, too.
According to the democracy monitor Freedom House, the Palestinian Authority “governs in an authoritarian manner, engaging in acts of repression against journalists and activists … journalists can be fined and jailed and newspapers closed for publishing information that might harm national unity.” The plight of Gazans is even more terrible, as Hamas has formed a Taliban-style theocracy in their territory.
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