63 years of Nakba

I'm sick of propaganda.

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Stop wailing about your nakba, Charlie Wolf tells the Palestinians in this mind-blowing column in Jewish News. Overcome adversity, as the Jews from Arab lands did with their nakba - for nakba is, above all else, a state of mind:

It is time the Palestinians and their supporters stopped living the lie of the naqba. It is time (to recall) the true narrative of history and the suffering on both sides, but particularly that of the Jews for hundreds of years under Muslim rule.

Sunday, of course, is the annual Palestinian rite of wailing, gnashing of teeth, and renting of garments. The creation of the modern state of Israel, a modern miracle in the desert, is not celebrated by them - it is the naqba. But their naqba is not the only one and it is not the whole story.

Yes, the naqba happened. But what isn't told is the fact that it was a disaster of the Palestinians' and Arabs' own making. When compared with the naqba, the Jews suffered both in size, scale and the context of the actions. So the story takes on new meaning.

The majority of Arabs to be fair, not all - left Israel voluntarily at the urging of political masters who planned to attack the newborn Jewish state. They thought they would return victorious to a new Arab state (after refusing the UN partition that would have created one) and lost.

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Jews, who have been the real victims of Arab aggression for thousands of years, do not buy into this mindset of victimhood. They overcome.

Maybe the Palestinian naqba is so pronounced, and so celebrated, because it is a nakba of their own making.

Liberal elites, who feed this victim group mentality, only hold them back from the progress they deserve. They have become prisoners to their own narrative.

As the Arab Spring breaks out across the Middle East, instead of wallowing in another naqba commemoration, it is time the Palestinians asked some hard questions of themselves and their Arab and Muslim brothers.

Just why are they still housed in refugee camps when Arab countries have 95 percent of the land mass in the Middle East? Why have they been kept in the camps as political pawns, while Jews from all over the world have lost more but are still able to build an even richer and better life in Israel?

The naqba is a state of mind. It holds the Palestinians back. Even if they somehow conquered all of the land from the river to the sea, they would still be refugees - to themselves.

Only they can end their naqba, cast off its chains, stop being victims and stop blaming Israel for their own problems.

I'm sick of propaganda, as well, namely pro-Israel and Zionist propaganda that appears on progressive sites seemingly like clockwork in response to any article in support of Palestinian self-determination.

I will not comment on the various falsehoods and historical inaccuracies that "True Left" (sic) has reguritated: Arabs left Israel voluntarily (as opposed to being driven out by massive ethnic cleansing), Arabs can easily live elsewhere in the remaining "95 per cent" of the Middle East, while Jews "all over the world" have only Israel (rather like taking my home in British Columbia then telling me to go live in Alberta or the US) and Jews have been the historical victims of Arab oppression (while traditional anti-semitism is European, not Arab, in origin).

It is the assertion that Palestinians are responsible for the Nakba that is the most reprehensible part of "True Left's" screed.  This is akin to blaming Africans for apartheid, African-Americans for Jim Crow or the Indigenous people of Turtle Island ("North America") for their colonial dispossession.  Thus, according to this revisionist view of history, the Nakba is merely a "state of mind", a Nakba of the Palestinian's own making.  If anybody made a similar comment about the Holocaust, they would be - correctly - denounced for their racism and anti-semitism.

I understand why left-liberal apologists for Israeli ethnic cleansing and apartheid would want to promote this kind of historical revisionism: as Israeli society descends further into fascism (a trend that can be discerned by reading such left Israeli writers as Amira Hass and Gideon Levy in the liberal Israeli daily Haaretz), more and more people of conscience are supporting Palestinian resistance such as the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign and the struggle against the Apartheid Wall.  To self-avowed "progressive" supporters of Israel, such developments are troubling.  This is why they must resort to the kind of crude historical revisionism that wouldn't pass muster in a Grade 8 Social Studies class.

For those interested in an accurate accounting of Palestinian (and thus Israeli) history, I highly recommend The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe as a welcome corrective to the hasbara (propaganda) emanating regularly from Israel supporters.

I'm sick of racist Zionists.

Wow more anti-Israeli propaganda? Yes, Palestinians have reason for grievance. However it's interesting how lefties ignore Tibet, Kurdistan and heck even North/South American First Nation self determination.

I mean, really, has did Israel force generations of Palestinians into Residential Schools where thousands of children were abused? Their traditions and faith almost destroyed.

No, that was Canada. Yet from all that was done to First Nations here in Canada, they never developed and encouraged the manic level of hate and violence that has been bred by Palestinian leadership.

Let's stop throwing stones at Israel from our glass house.

Wow..Yeah,we all forgot about history and the rest of the world.

This particular story is about Palestine.

Get back to us when it's on topic.

BTW,I'm sure if looked around here,you'd find threads denouncing ALL genocidal regimes---not just Israel.

It is on topic. This story is just one sided, any story about Palestine should be somewhat even handed.

And sadly Rabble does not PERMIT voices of dissension. So not only does it not want the facts to get in the way of it's precious ideology but it is as bad as Stephen Harper who seeks to silence all opposition.

I can hear those PC goose steps now.