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Originally Posted by Fuzz

What do you suppose is fueling this hatred?

Here’s what someone once said on the matter:

FWIW.

I am Jewish, and my stance on the issue is that Israel is an overfunded, over armed, bully in that region of the world. What are the Palestinians supposed to do? Roll over on their backs, and let the Israeli's put a bullet in their head? Because if given the opportunity, Israeli's would, in a heartbeat both literally and figuratively. Half of the Israeli's would line up to pull the trigger, and smile when they did it, the hatred is that deep. Israeli's view Palestinians as sub human garbage, that are less than dogs. And treat them as such. What are the Palestinians supposed to do? Let that happen? Just roll over and die when the world placed the Israeli's in their back yard?

I am not defending the actions of Hamas, they have done some horrid things to. But let's play a little game. As the landlord, I'm gonna come over to your house, with a family you have never met. Then I am going to give them half the house. Eventually though they force you to live in the basement. While they are upstairs enjoying a juicy T-Bone they made in your stainless steel appliances, eating it sitting on your leather sofa, enjoying the Flames game, while you get to sit in the dank basement on a lawn chair, enjoying a can of beans you made on a coleman camp stove listening to the game on transistor radio with a blown speaker. Worse yet, the neighbours have given them the money to build a giant door keeping you out, and supplied them with crate loads of guns to keep you down there. At your disposal you have a flare gun, and a baseball bat.

I don't know about you, but I would be more than willing to die to fight myself out of that situation too, because it beats sitting in a dank basement for the rest of my life.

People have to be able to look at the situation from both sides, and not just look at is as Hamas being "A bunch of crazy Muslims." The anti-Palestinian camp, is just as guilty of being anti-Muslim, as the pro-Palestinian camp is being accused of being Anti-Semetic. They just aren't as vocal about it.

No idea who. Just… someone… from the history books.