Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day (Bradley Burston)

[Ken Burch]

13. If they had been allowed to return, without retribution, after the war was over

it is difficult to believe that the Palestinians would still have wanted to resist the existence of Israel in any form whatsoever, or to automatically be fixated on driving out anybody who simply happened to be Jewish.

After all, they had co-existed well enough with the indigenous Jewish population of Judea and Samaria, at least, prior to 1948.

I will always wonder why it wasn't enough for the Israeli government, post-1967, to ask that THOSE people be resettled. Why, instead of that, did Ariel Sharon decide to bring in huge numbers of people that had no direct connection with the lands of the West Bank, many of whom(not all, but many)were there out of messianic religious and revanchist political intent. It would have been just to call for those who'd lived their prior to 1948 to be allowed back..but why anybody else? And why, if anybody else had to be brought in, did people who were the craziest of the crazy have to be included?

I mean, seriously shira, can you not see how it MIGHT possibly cause trouble amongst the Palestinians for these outsiders, many of whom were brought in from America, of all places, with the attitude that "it's OUR land, not YOURS" to not only be brought in from elsewhere but defended by the might of the IDF?