Atheists & Agnostics

Among several issues are the continuing confiscation of land by Israel, the denial of rights for Palestinians, the feckless Arab world that did little to support a Palestinian state, incompetent and corrupt Palestinian leadership, and a world order in 1947-48 that reeled from the horrors of the Holocaust and failed to create a more equal division of land and options for the Palestinians. Over the years, both sides have failed to work to create a livable solution that could lead to peace. And now Israel’s hard right are controlling the government and they want to evict all Palestinians from the West Bank to take their land. Those living in Gaza lack enough drinking water and their living conditions are essentially a prison camp. Under such conditions, they are unlikely to kick out Hamas, which gets funding from other countries to help feed Gazans. I’m not excusing Palestinians for this latest attack, but faced with a state that wants to evict you entirely from your ancestral lands, wouldn’t you fight too?