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A review by wchereads
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh

A short read that has good points especially in part I (which was a very concise overview and good refresher on the history of Palestine post-occupation), though I fear that it fails to be truly radical by the end. There's still a strange condemnation of Palestinian resistance (yes yes the resistance cannot resist by committing war crimes oh does isntreal care? Do you think Isntreal CARES what Palestinians do? Whether they resist with weapons or not?) and the author was very ambiguous about where he stand exactly on "two-state solution." I especially am not a fan of this paragraph: 

for the majority of Palestinians, who are not part of Hamas; for those Israelis who could only watch dismay at what their government was doing... for those of us who know with unshakable certainty that the only future is for the two peoples to live together - the future might seem bleak. And yet... it is only after great upheavals that hopeful consequences follow. The Madrid Peace Conference came after the difficult years of the First Intifada.

Yeah sure it was a peace conference but you wrote about it yourself... Look where that peace conference got us... And then ending the chapter by quoting Refaat Alareer while saying

perhaps we can take some solace from [his] words... who died in an Israeli air strike on Gaza

Nah bro he was KILLED. MURDERED. I am NOT taking solace when I read his words I am PISSED. The author won't say it so I will: FUCK Israel and I hope this state is dismantled FOR GOOD alongside all the genocidal imperial government that won't stop meddling in other people's business, the US Empire being the first of many.