Chris Hayes has brilliantly articulated in clear, unmistakable terms how U.S. policy toward the Palestinians has punished nonviolence and rewarded violent resistance.
It is a dynamic and a disparity those who follow the conflict have known for some time, but a dynamic few casual observers realize.
I implore you to spend three minutes and watch this segment, which begins 40 seconds into the clip. For it is a piece of pure genius from an expository point of view:
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As the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas prepare for their vote in the U.N. on Thursday to gain a non-member state observer status –
an effort the U.S. tried to thwart – remember this clip from Hayes.