Very well said, Dave

Submitted by Prashant (India), Dec 31, 2022 at 04:37

Dear Dr. Pipes,
Reader Dave wrote a very insightful letter. Islam, due to its intolerant, supremacist, and exclusionary nature does not share any true bonds with any other people. It breaks bonds with history. And it breaks bonds with other cultures. There cannot be a true Palestinian identity. Identities are formed by building bonds and not by breaking bonds.

A true Palestinian identity will go back to the Biblical Philistine and include the cultures, religions, crops, flavors, and languages of the Biblical times. But these are the exact things that Islam vilifies and tries to destroy. The modern, so called, Palestine that Israeli Muslims clamor about is nothing but a manifestation of the Islamic greed for more land.

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