Ireland: Op-Ed claims Sharon tried cleansing Palestinians due to ‘chosen people’ belief

McCann further contextualizes the passage from Genesis, thus: 

Sharon’s ruthless determination to cleanse the land of Israel of Palestinians was not rooted in analysis of contemporary reality – he didn’t see it primarily as a necessary response to anti-Semitism in the wider world, or to the Holocaust – but in the first instance as a duty conferred on the Jewish people by Yahweh.

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