Know Thine Enemy by Gareth Cliff
I am not a Jew and I'm not a citizen of Israel. I haven't even visited Israel. I don't trace my religion back to a holy site in Jerusalem and I don't have a problem with Arabs or Muslims or Christians. I've read about Abraham, Moses, David and Solomon; the Umayyads, the Abbasids and the Ottomans; I know about the British, the Balfour declaration, Ben Gurion and Golda Meir. I know a bit about the Six-Day War and the Intifada. I might not have any personal stake in the Holy Land, but humanity certainly does – and I'm a human being.The women, men, children, elderly people and soldiers who were kidnapped, tortured, raped, humiliated and murdered on Saturday by Hamas in sovereign Israel were human beings too. Those who did it to them are not.
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