Demonizing "Them"
The Dallas Morning News' Rod Dreher discovered another thing that's evil about the Hamas party in Palestine. This time it's their children's television programming, which demonizes George W Bush. Dreher asks, "How is Israel supposed to make peace with people like that?"
The simple answer is, you don't. You make common cause with peaceful Palestinians and marginalize Hamas. Hamas demonizes its enemies because it doesn't want peace. Us demonizing Palestinians in return just tends to increase Hamas' influence and power. Trying to kill all Hamas is even more futile. Dreher means well, but by fixating on the evil, he will never identify and cultivate what good might be trying to germinate in that God-forsaken land.
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