Solomonia Archive: Happy Belated Nakba Day

Thursday, May 15, 2003

Alterna-history is working its way into the mainstream. I don't know what else to say about this Reuters piece. Just a couple quips:

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinians mark the 55th anniversary on Thursday of their "Nakba" (Catastrophe), the loss of their homeland to the new state of Israel, amid a new Middle East peace drive marred by persistent bloodshed.[...]

Huh? You mean all the Palestinians lost their homeland? So who are those arabs still living in Israel, then? And let's get it straight - that's "Palestinian Arabs" who are upset. Not all the former Palestinians are Arab.

[...]The Palestinian leadership has accepted an international peace plan envisaging an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza -- slices of British Mandate Palestine left to Arabs after a disastrous 1948 war to stop Israel's creation.[...]

Does "Palestinian Leadership" include Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, Arafat himself...? And "left to Arabs?" You mean Arabs and Arabs alone don't you? Left to be Judenrein right?

On and on...

One more thing:

[...]Arabs went to war in 1948 over a U.N. resolution dividing Mandate Palestine into two states, one Jewish, the other Arab. They said it was unfair to lose what they deemed ancestral lands to accommodate Jews seeking a state after the Nazi Holocaust.[...]

...as if it was an either/or, and as if the Jews needed Israel as free of Arabs as the Arabs wanted it free of Jews.

Posted by Solomon at 11:51 AM on Thursday, May 15, 2003
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