Israeli-Palestinian peace process

Salman Rushdie: *Although he has “argued for a Palestinian state for most of my life — since the 1980s, probably &mdash right now, if there was a Palestinian state, it would be run by HAMAS, and that would make it a Taliban-like state, and it would be a client state of Iran."* He finds it strange that some progressive students support such a thing.

To me, it is disappointing but understandable — they are yielding to the tendency to oversimplify situations into "side A vs side B". If you think about the Gaza war in terms of "pro-Israel" vs "pro-Palestine", then your condemnation of Israel's bombardment and tends to lead you into supporting Israel's enemy, HAMAS.

Therefore I am firmly pro-Israel and firmly pro-Palestine.

*Can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?*

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.