Progressives Ignore Cultural War Behind Middle East Conflict - The American Spectator

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Progressives Ignore Cultural War Behind Middle East Conflict

Hamas’s Islamism makes it a sworn enemy of Israel.

by Abraham H. Miller

June 8, 2021, 12:13 PM

Hamas militants engage in anti-Israel demonstration in southern Gaza Strip, November 11, 2019 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Shutterstock.com)

The most recent conflict in the Middle East erupted when Jews who own property in East Jerusalem, in the neighborhood known to Arabs as Sheikh Jarrah, sought to evict Arab tenants who refused to pay t...

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