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(New page: {{Item |author=Amir Taheri |source=The Times |date=January 9, 2009 |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5477420.ece |quote="To Hamas, Palestin...)
 
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|quote="To Hamas, Palestine is part of a cause rather than a political project. One cannot negotiate with a cause that claims celestial benediction, especially when it rejects the very legitimacy of one's existence. A political project, however, is negotiable because it is about worldly problems such as territory, borders, security, exchange of populations and joint administration of certain areas, which could have worldly solutions."
|quote="To Hamas, Palestine is part of a cause rather than a political project. One cannot negotiate with a cause that claims celestial benediction, especially when it rejects the very legitimacy of one's existence. A political project, however, is negotiable because it is about worldly problems such as territory, borders, security, exchange of populations and joint administration of certain areas, which could have worldly solutions."
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{{Opinion|2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict|Israel was right to attack Gaza|for}}
{{Opinion|Gaza War|Israel was right to attack Gaza|for}}

Latest revision as of 17:44, July 14, 2009

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Author(s) Amir Taheri
Source The Times
Date January 9, 2009
URL http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article5477420.ece
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Quotes-start.png "To Hamas, Palestine is part of a cause rather than a political project. One cannot negotiate with a cause that claims celestial benediction, especially when it rejects the very legitimacy of one's existence. A political project, however, is negotiable because it is about worldly problems such as territory, borders, security, exchange of populations and joint administration of certain areas, which could have worldly solutions." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Israel was right to attack Gaza on the topic Gaza War.