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Mingyao
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As strange as it sounds, this group, which eventually morphed into Hamas, was initially opposed to violent confrontations with Israel. Salvation in their pious thinking, would come about only after we all went back to the unsullied Islamic way of life.
— Aug 12, 2025 06:33PM
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Mingyao
is on page 166 of 560
In Palestinian tradition, the individual isn’t really an individual. If you steal something, or are gen accused of doing so, you and your entire tribe become culpable. The wronged family or tribe has the right of revenge against any member of your tribe or family. What prevents revenge and bloodshed is a form of conflict resolution - the two sides set up a Sulha.
— Aug 11, 2025 07:55PM
Mingyao
is on page 114 of 560
Morally speaking, it was a case of out of sight, out of mind. Their humanism never had to face us.
— Aug 10, 2025 06:53AM
Mingyao
is on page 67 of 560
She had brought home from school a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. She cried and cried in anguished identification with this Jewish child hidden in an annex, terrified at being found out by the killers of her people. It was a paradoxical identification for the daughter of a mother who had suffered so much at the hands of the Zionist.
— Jul 27, 2025 09:57AM
