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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day (Bradley Burston) [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)28. Sorry...here's three sources for the second quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus
http://www.1948.org.uk/population-transfer-committee/
http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/reading/wolf.html
There are others.
Ben-Gurion said this before the Peel Commission in 1938.
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My objective in posting this quote is NOT to say that the existence of the State of Israel is evil. Rather, it is to say that the creation of that state was not a purely innocent act and that, if peace is to be made, recognition must be made that people on both sides of this did suffer, and many of them suffered needlessly.
That's not demonization...it's just a desire for peace.
My posting this is no different than an Israeli pointing out that a large number of Native Americans were driven off their lands, most of whom had done nothing to deserve it. I can acknowledge that, and call for redress and an acknowledgment of the wrongs to be made, when it comes to my country, and I accept the right of the Israeli who may have pointed this out(not that nobody here had noticed it, of course)as being fully legitimate.
http://www.1948.org.uk/population-transfer-committee/
http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/reading/wolf.html
There are others.
Ben-Gurion said this before the Peel Commission in 1938.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
My objective in posting this quote is NOT to say that the existence of the State of Israel is evil. Rather, it is to say that the creation of that state was not a purely innocent act and that, if peace is to be made, recognition must be made that people on both sides of this did suffer, and many of them suffered needlessly.
That's not demonization...it's just a desire for peace.
My posting this is no different than an Israeli pointing out that a large number of Native Americans were driven off their lands, most of whom had done nothing to deserve it. I can acknowledge that, and call for redress and an acknowledgment of the wrongs to be made, when it comes to my country, and I accept the right of the Israeli who may have pointed this out(not that nobody here had noticed it, of course)as being fully legitimate.
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Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day (Bradley Burston) [View all]
Violet_Crumble
May 2012
OP
Thanks. I must have been trying to read one that was part of their premium content...
Violet_Crumble
May 2012
#2
As usual, yr wrong. The Nakba was the dispossession of around 700,000 Palestinians...
Violet_Crumble
May 2012
#6
I'll have to rememberthis the n ext time you attempt to delegitimize wiki however
azurnoir
May 2012
#27
Is there something you didn't understand about the information I gave you?
Violet_Crumble
May 2012
#17
If they had been allowed to return, without retribution, after the war was over
Ken Burch
May 2012
#13
Yes, and the first was a civil war. And you cannot understand why Israel was reluctant...
shira
May 2012
#41