When so much of your world is treated by so many important parties for so long with an endless stream of fictions, you grow very cynical. Here are a few: 1) Tel Aviv is not the capital of Israel 2) the Golan Heights are not part of Syria 3) Hezbollah does not have separate political and military wings 4) Jerusalem does not have municipal division between West and East 5) Jews are not alien to the Land of Israel 6) International law does not apply to “aspirational” states that don’t exist yet 7) the “two-state solution” is not a consensus opinion 8) land can be no more “Palestinian” legally than it can be Kurdish or Shia or Christian. 9) Israel is not a colonial artifice but rather much less “artificial”than Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan—all countries invented by colonial powers with similar looking flags (originally designed by the British). Each of these fictions has undermined Israeli sovereign rights and are an affront to our national dignity. They accumulate in a way that should never be tolerated again.
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