re: Hamas needs to be ended

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Thats why the made up people who call themselves Palestinians

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Benedict Anderson wrote a seminal history of nationalism called Imagined Communties.

The title is why I bring it up. As he writes, nations are a group of people who decide they’re a people. It’s an act of self creation, and in many ways it is artificial and arbitrary. So as long as the Palistinians consider themselves a people, they are one.

I would also say, the people of the Arab peninsula are certainly Arabs, but when you leave the peninsula, you encounter pre Islamic influence. To call everyone in the region Arab means glossing over substantial cultural differences.

There is something different about the peoples of that coastal region. Just as the peoples of Syria and Lebanon are different.

And then you have the Palistinians conflict with their Jewish neighbors, that has also shaped a unique identity.