— Eric K. WardI also recognize that the colonial frame is important to how many on the political left understand this conflict, and Palestinian experience of dispossession and mass violence and death is real and unacceptable. This can’t be said enough. But even here, the moral analysis in our rhetoric often becomes selective. Israel is hardly the only state in the Middle East, or the world, whose modern form was shaped by imperial collapse, outside powers, partition, war, or borders drawn without the consent of everyone who lived inside them.
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