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Robert Jaffee's avatar

“That is something that he has had to grapple with more intensely than anyone else I've known and dealt with,” he said, describing admiration at Mahdawi’s response that he would hold not only his own grief and suffering, but that of his enemies as well. “I will make them into my friends,” Mahdawi told Dardik.”

Mahdawi isn’t being deported because he’s is a Hamas or terrorist sympathizer; to the contrary, he’s being deported because he’s not!

People like Mahdawi are the greatest threat to the crimes Israel is committing and about to commit.

Mahdawi represents the prospect for peace and unity, and that’s something Trump and Netanyahu can never allow to be achieved. IMHO!….:)

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Jeanette Sarmiento's avatar

The word anti-Semite is understood strictly as anti-Jewish, but in fact refers to people who speak Semitic languages, which includes Arabic and Hebrew. In other words, all the hatred directed against those who defend Palestine's right to exist, defend itself, have sovereignty and equal rights, is also anti-Semitism.

The similarity with how the United States treated Native Americans is vivid. Natives were also viewed as violent savages/vermin to be exterminated, and little by little were pushed out of their lands and "allowed" to live in reservations, which were later to inform the "rounding up the undesirables" idea behind Hitler's concentration camps. The federal government routinely lied to and cheated Native Americans out of countless treaties that favored the US. The difference between Manifest Destiny and Zionism is geographic and populations.

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