By some standards we are perhaps an unexceptional people; our national history testifies to a failing contest with a basically European and ambitious ideology (as well as practice); we have been unable to interest the West very much in the justice of our cause. Nevertheless we have begun, I think, to construct a political identity and will of our

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I'm going to breakdown parts of this Atlantic article - how dangerous this and the ideas presented in it are. This piece isn't concerned with truths of colonization & Israel, but with dismissing Palestinian claims of history & crimes by Israel. It's Nakba... See more