In a previous post I tried to argue in favour of the possible benefits of talking to terrorist groups, including Hamas. In general, I’d stick that to position. However, when I read stuff like this,
Israel is a foreign body. The problem is not that they are Jews, or Christians, or secular. It’s because they are non-native. When we transplant a healthy kidney to an ill man, the body will reject it because it is non-self. We have to use anti-immunity suppressants to make the new body receive the transplanted kidney. Today, America and the West are the anti-immunity suppressants for Israel.
from Mahmoud Zahar, Hamas´s ex-Foreign Minister, I really wonder what the point would be. What could he possibly say to the government of Israel and what could they possibly say to him?
“Go back to where you came from.”
“No. We belong here as much as you do”
That would be about it. And whenever politicians resort to medical metaphors I start to get a bit worried. It reminds me of the language used by the military dictatorship here: the cancer of Marxism, the cancer of subversion and similar phrases. The full interview with Zahar is here.
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