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March 17, 2025

How Voluntary Migration Can Undermine Hamas’s Myth of Palestinian Steadfastness

Currently, the international community colludes with Hamas to keep Palestinians trapped in Gaza.

A cornerstone of Palestinian nationalist rhetoric is the concept of sumud, or “steadfastness.” In essence, sumud means that Palestinians will not give up their commitment to eradicating Israel and returning to their ancestral homes within the pre-1967 borders—no matter how much time elapses, no matter how much they suffer in the meantime, and no matter how many battles with the IDF they lose. Avraham Shalev proposes a humanitarian way to break to the self-perpetuating myth of sumud:

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March 17, 2025

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