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Gary Kamiya and many other Israel haters fail to establish and acknowledge one true fact in all of their vitriolic writings: never, not once, not in the history of human civilization, has there ever been a sovereign nation named "Palestine".
Palestine is to the Middle East what neighborhoods like Harlem or Queens or Hells Kitchen is in New York; what Galewood or Albany Park or Hyde Park are in Chicago; what Watts or South Central are in Los Angeles. They're neighborhoods within cities. They are not cities unto themselves.
Israel has been a sovereign nation since before the Old Testament was written before the time of Moses.
The only countries in the modern world who have attempted to establish a free standing and democratic Palestinian country of, for, and by the Palestinian people have been Israel and the United States. For this effort, both countries have been vilified, spat upon, and terrorized by the jihadists who use Palestinians as cannon fodder in their never ending war of hatred.
Until and unless radical Islamic jihadism is rebuked by all Muslims everywhere, nothing will change. Unfortunately, the goal of radical Islamic jihadism is for all of us to die.
