Here's my response (to Laila el-Haddad's personal attack -- the extremists NEVER address the issues, they only attack the person) and under the guise of being the "Gaza Mom", she attacked me personally in part because I am a Christian Palestinian (married to a Jewish wife) and because I espoused support for peace based on two-states, something she clearly rejected. (Click to read her blog).
When you support the one-state "solution" you are condemning Palestinians to generations of despair and suffering, but that suffering and despair enables you to self-focused activism. Anyone who supports "one-state" is either consumed with suffering and tragedy or simply an extremist who rejects compromise, and NOT a moderate. So why waste my time talking to you?
Gaza IS NOT the only issue. The issue is peace, something the Hamas terrorists (and the settler terrorists) do not want. When we have peace, we will have a safe Gaza and West Bank and Palestine State. But I don't think you want peace at all. You want victory over the "Jews" and the Israelis, and you won't stop fighting until you turn back the clock to 1922. It ain't going to happen. And don't wrap yourself up with the suffering of my people. It's people like you who have enabled the Israeli extremists to achieve what they have.
Your extremism is undermining the Palestinian cause. And although you use your celebrity to achieve personal gain, the Palestinians are suffering because of your extremist views and your hatred of moderates, Jews and Christian Arabs who like me dare to express their views.
You asked, I answered.
Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com
www.TheArabDailyNews.com
1 comment:
"Anyone who supports 'one-state' is either consumed with suffering and tragedy or simply an extremist who rejects compromise, and NOT a moderate. So why waste my time talking to you..."
That's the voice of a moderate? Are you serious?
The one-state movement is growing because many supporters of Palestine recognize that two-states can never come to pass. The West Bank resembles swiss cheese.
Demanding equal rights for all humans who live under Israel's dominion is hardly an "extreme" position.
Quite the opposite, I would argue that the extremists are those who counsel the never-ending continuation of the status quo, which provides full rights only for Jewish Israelis.
Either way, Ray, it's insane to paint Laila Haddad as a foaming-at-the-mouth extremists. Have you actually read her blog? Laila is hardly on the extreme end of the Palestinian policial continuum.
Geez... and we wonder why Palestinians in Palestine are in utter disarray?
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