Listening to the latest episode of The Daily, which is about Israel, and @mikiebarb calls Menachem Begin “the president of Israel” in 1981 
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They talk about the history of the conflict since 2000 without mentioning Arafat's rejection of clinton's peace plane at Camp David, 120 suicide bombings, pull-out from Gaza, rise of Hamas, thousands of rockets, the 3 years of Olmert and his rejected peace offer to Abbas in 2008>
As Palestinian rights groups have noted, we didn't mention Deir Yassin or Kfir Qasim either. The history of Israel is longer than a half hour.
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Dir Yassin is the go-to event anti-Zionists always use to deligtimize Israel. It's one of the usual talking points of Israel-haters. It happened 71 years ago (there were countless atrocities committed by Arabs back then too). Events I mentioned since 2000 are crucial context -
Point is, a half-hour podcast is going to omit a lot, and all sides of a very heated argument will have a beef with the sins of omission. The Palestinian rights activists have as much right to complain as the pro-Israel community. So have at it.
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If you don't have enough time to cover a complicated issue with all the different angles, you should do several programs on it or avoid the topic. It's not the time that was the problem, it's your agenda
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