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| Israel-Palestine-Jordan |
| The Nakba narrative prevents peace |
| 2010-07-29 |
| from City Journal In describing the battle for Jaffa, the Arab city adjoining Tel Aviv, Karsh uses British military archives to show that the Israelis again the article discusses a similar situation in Haifa promised the Arabs that they could stay if they laid down their arms. But the mufti's orders again forbade it. Several years ago, I briefly visited the largest refugee camp in the West Bank: Balata, inside the city of Nablus. Many of the camp's approximately 20,000 residents are the children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren of the Arab citizens of Jaffa who fled their homes in early 1948 In Balata, history has come full circle... Now, the descendants of those citizens are locked up in places like Balata and prohibited from resettling in the Palestinian-administered West Bank--again. For if Israel and the Palestinians ever managed to hammer out the draft of a peace treaty, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, would have to go to Balata and explain to its residents that their leaders have been lying to them for 60 years and that they are not going back to Jaffa. |
| Posted by:lord garth |
| #1 Excellent article, LG. If ever there were a people who should revolt against their leadership, it's the Paleos. You'd think they would get tired of being pawns, but hey, they're Paleos... |
| Posted by: Spot 2010-07-29 08:45 |