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Why Won’t Peace Protesters Give Peace a Chance?

JL;DR SUMMARY Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib challenges Western pro-Palestine activists for their inconsistency in responding to a proposed U.S.-brokered plan that aims to end the conflict in Gaza, highlighting their hesitation to support an initiative some perceive as colonial. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasGazaPeace ProcessCeasefireUs Foreign PolicyPro PalestinePolitical TransformationWestern Activism

Places mentioned

Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"After nearly two years of relentless campaigning by activists, journalists, academics, and a host of pro-Palestine personalities to stop the war in Gaza that Hamas started on October 7, 2023, a credible plan to do just that is finally taking hold."
Israel
"The plan proposed by President Donald Trump, agreed to last week by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is not a Gaza Riviera plan-non-plan."
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
"After last weeks terror attack outside a Manchester, United Kingdom, synagogue that led to the death of two Jews on the holiest day of the Jewish year, these same voices claiming to care about Palestinians and peace made their approval of this criminal act clear because it happened at a Zionist establishment."
France
"Things are not much better in France, or in Germany, where police just arrested three Hamas operatives allegedly planning attacks against Jewish targets."
Germany
"Things are not much better in France, or in Germany, where police just arrested three Hamas operatives allegedly planning attacks against Jewish targets."
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