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#391 – Mohammed El-Kurd: Palestine

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The Palestinian Exceptionalism in the Middle East

Is Israelis being killed in part by terrorist action? Well, it depends on how you define terrorism, right? Across history, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. I don't necessarily subscribe to the definition of terrorism. If a foreign army is in my neighborhood, which it's not supposed to be in and they're shooting life ammunition at my house, I'm allowed to do what I'mallowed to do. People have no problem seeing Ukrainians defending their homes or making makeshift Molotov zone sky news. These things we would not even dream of as Palestinians. We are told to turn the other cheek time and time again. This is all about who has power, who gets

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