Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day (Bradley Burston) [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)to take the attitude that it was there land MORE than it was the Palestinians' land...or to simply move into homes that Palestinians had been driven out of, without any compensation being paid to those who'd been made to leave.
They did not have the right, in short, to act as if the fourteen centuries that Palestinians had lived continuously in these lands in significant numbers, farming the land, creating their own culture, making their own lives and traditions, meant nothing.
And it's that attitude, I think, more than any prejudice that you would prefer to think was involved, that is resented by the Palestinians.
If the situation were reversed, the Israelis who were displaced by Palestinians in a reversed scenario would probably be acting very much the same...after all, in the years when control of these lands was in play(1918 to 1948)there was terrorism on BOTH sides, and quite a lot of it.