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So Coates thinks Gaza and the West Bank are like Chicago? I'm from Chicago, and there are some really blighted neighborhoods on the south and west sides where 3-5 people are shot and killed every weekend, where squad cars crawl everywhere, where the only stores pretty much suck, where train stops are non-existent, where the roads are so full of potholes they're undriveable, and where menacing dudes hang out in the parks after dark. And funny - nobody from these neighborhoods has ever mobilized a coordinated attack of the "nice" neighborhoods in order to wantonly murder people at a dance club, to take babies and grandparents as hostages, to rape women to death and mutilate them afterwards, to torture children in front of their parents, or to hack people's heads off with garden tools. Maybe Coates can explain.

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