Tuesday, July 1, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Irwin Cotler: The double Nakba - '..."The Jewish leadership accepted the resolution, but the Palestinian and Arab leadership did not, which they had a right to do. What they did not have a right to do was attack the nascent Jewish state with the objective - as they acknowledged at the time - of initiating a 'war of extermination.' The result was, therefore, a double Nakba: not only of Palestinian-Arab suffering and the creation of a Palestinian refugee problem, but also, with the assault on Israel and on Jews in Arab countries, the creation of a second, much less known, group of refugees - Jewish refugees from Arab countries."...'
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While this is true, arab failed nationalists tried to extreminate Israel, and today they are crowling toward peace with israel.
but on the other hand, we should not forget the number of israleies that call for judea and samaria and all the extremist thoughts, which i am sure if there was a census they will amount to a shoking percent of the israeli population, and as sharon said, the israeli public opinion is always a support.
as what will happen when israelies will vote for the golan hights,which surely will be against any peace deal with the syrian caliphat.
Irwin Cotler's article forgets to mention the other Palestinian refugees:
"One of the most pointed issues in the Israeli Palestinian conflict is that of the refugees, while a lot had been said and written about the Arab Palestinian refugees, and a little about the Jewish refugees from Arab countries, virtually nothing has been said about the first waves of refugees in this cycle of violence, that of British Palestine’s Jewish refugees.
They fled murderous Arab violence in Jaffa in 1921, were their number dropped from over 12,000 to 5,087.
They fled Hebron in 1929 following the massacre.
And in 1936 over 10,000 Jews fled violence and destruction: From Jaffa, Hebron, and various neighborhood in Jerusalem and Haifa were there was a mix Jewish Arab population."
http://www.geocities.com/activezionism/Palestinianatrocities/Palestinejewishrefugees.html
Jews have a right to live and settle anywhere in historic Palestine. On this there is not much disagreement. However, I think Israelis and Palestinians should agree to shelf their respective rights to live in each other's backyards in return for a full and final peace agreement. This is not likely to happen.
The West Bank is also a very different case from the Golan Heights. There is very little desire in israel to return the plateau to Syria, for any number of reasons.