Chris Hedges: Why Israel Lies

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138. Millions of Palestinians were killed by Europeans?

Thus Palestinians had no option to go back to Europe? Sorry I am lost, we are discussing the Palestinians right to return. If they do NOT want to return, they also have that right.

As to killing of Palestinians, the only records I can find is of Israeli forces doing so as they drove Palestinians out of various Palestinians towns during the 1948 War of Independence.

As to 6 million Jews bring killed by the Nazis (Total Death Camps deaths were about 13 million, but no one cares about the Gypsy/Roma or other people through into those camps), what has that to do with Palestinians? Did the Jews have the right to kick out Palestinians because Nazis killed Jews? That is what you are saying, that since Europeans hate Jews, Palestinians should be kicked out of their lands so the Jews can have that land for free.

At least the Right Wing in Israel are smart enough NOT to use the Holocaust as an excuse for kicking out the Palestinians, they are least cite the massive discrimination against Jews in various Arab Nations as justification. That such Middle Eastern Jews were forced out of their own countries is undisputed (Through they are indications that some of the violent acts were done by Jews from Israel to encourage movement of such Middle Eastern Jews to Israel). The Right wing in Israel cite such expulsions without compensation grounds to do the same to the Palestinians. The come back on such statements is that such acts were NOT the acts of the people of Palestine and why should the people of Palestine suffer for the crimes of others.

I can NOT find the right wing Israeli web cite I read yesterday and its reliance of the expulsion of Jews from various Middle Easterns States but here are other cites on the right to return:

http://unitedwithisrael.org/why-international-law-doesnt-support-a-palestinian-right-of-return/
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/PalIsrGans.html