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@aral OK but a suggestion: We stop calling the Palestinian side "barbarians" without calling the Israeli side, which is guilty of just as atrocious crimes - and on a larger scale - the same.

I'm not disagreeing about the characterization of Hamas. But every time they are ritually condemned in this language of "savages" without the opposite side getting the same treatment, we feed into an old racist narrative that the Arabs are less civilized than the "Westerners".