Prof. Xuetong gets right to the heart of Israel’s symbolic power: it is to determine what is factual and what isn’t. Why is the “international community” accepting Israel’s claim that Hamas is a terrorist organization at all? Reject both Israeli facts and Israeli logicThe international community to which Prof. Xuetong refers has some serious rethinking to do. If the “international community” wants to take meaningful, purely symbolic action, the thing to do isn’t to recognize a disarmed, Zionist, Palestinian statelet. It’s to recognize Hamas.