Yoav Fisher
2 min readJan 4, 2024

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Ok Farida - I will play along... Here is what I really think... I think you don't care about peace between Israel and Palestine at all. i don't think you care about Palestinian civilians either.

This is why - Israel is not going anywhere. Palestinians are not going anywhere. Therefore, both sides need to make concessions to reach some point of begrudging coexistence. But in order to do that, both sides need to accept that each side has a narrative. Only by understanding both sides can you reach any type of understanding.

Those who only push the narrative of one side, or only see the narrative of one side, actually cause harm and create more animosity.

This is what you are doing - you are spewing more hate into the world and hate breeds more hate.

So here is what I think you should do - for your own edification, take some time to try to see the other side. You may disagree with it, and you are entitled to your own opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts, and it would maybe help if you started to accept those facts. Facts like yes, Hamas uses rape as means of war. Yes, Hamas is a terrorist organization that kills civilians. yes Hamas has destroyed Gaza (https://www.newsweek.com/hamas-tortured-me-dissent-heres-what-they-really-think-palestinians-opinion-1857169)

Facts like Syria has been slaughtering palestinians for a decade and I don't see anybody protesting in the streets for that. Facts like Jordan has been systematically stripping away citizenship for Palestinians for a decade and I don't see anybody protesting in the streets for that. Facts like Turkey just carpet bombed a bunch of Kurdish children and I don't see anybody in the street for that. Facts like ripping own posters of Jewish children who were kidnapped in no way helps Palestinians. Facts like it is not Jews who call to "gas" or "kill" other religions in the streets, or do bomb threats on elementary schools or go on public television preaching the legitimacy of child marriage

And so on.

My fear is that too many people have been sucking on the dick of Jihadi propaganda for so long that they refuse to even acknowledge that other narratives exist. And this is to the detriment of all.

Want to Free Palestine? Then work toward freeing Palestine from Hamas.

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Yoav Fisher
Yoav Fisher

Written by Yoav Fisher

Head of Health Innovation at HealthIL.org — Tel Aviv based

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