Good for NPR. For Israel's birthday celebration, it interviewed Nina Cullers, a Palestinian-American living in Virginia, who described her family's flight from Jerusalem in '48. She says her family picked up and left Jerusalem after the Haganah's bombing of the Semiramis Hotel on January 1948. 20 Arabs were killed. They were terrified. Maybe you would have been too. (Notice that Commentary Magazine's recent monument of Nakba denial, by Efraim Karsh, doesn't even mention West Jerusalem amid his claim that the Arabs drove the Arabs out of Palestine).
Cullers's family always dreamed they were going back. Nope. She added: Palestinians were a traditional culture. It is one thing for young people to grow up far away from their roots–as she did–quite another for older, traditional people to experience uprooting. Her parents, she said, "died in this country [the U.S.], brokenhearted, away from their friends, away from their way of life."
It is not merely an issue of being a traditional culture.
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Spiritual Exile Into Physical Exile
With the collapse of the messianic movements of Shabbetai Tzvi and Jacob Frank during the slow disintegration of Commonwealth Poland, many ideas of European Jewish mysticism cross over from learned religious discourse into popular Jewish culture generally in a distorted or debased sense. Galut or exile, which for the most part had served as an abstract notion of deterritorialized Rabbinic Judaism to describe the alienation of man from God, became a palpable aspect of Jewish life even though prayers like the tenth benediction of the Amidah prayer refer not to the Medieval and Modern Jewish Diaspora (tәfutzah) but to the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles (galuyyot[eynu]).
As the Polish state slowly dissolved and Poland ceased to be Poland any longer from the Jewish standpoint, ethnic Ashkenazim began to feel that they were in exile in their Polish homeland without having relocated, and they found it a lot easier to contemplate emigration to Western Europe, to the Americas, to the Central Russian provinces or to Palestine. A similar feeling probably facilitated the Greek Bulgarian Turkish population exchanges in the aftermath of WW 1 as old imperial states were replaced by newer more ethnically oriented states and traditional territories began to feel alien while new ethnic centers exerted a pull on communities living outside the new boundaries.[xxvi]
Because Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish leaders assumed that leaving homes and villages was similarly easy for all populations, they dreamed especially during the 1930s but even to this day of reaching some sort of final agreement with Palestinians by settling them in some other Arab country.
Because the cultural and ethnic centers for Palestinians are Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron but not Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Karbala, Ramadi, or Samara, Palestinians were never going to agree to transfer to Iraq or some other Arabic territory. (See Baksheesh Diplomacy, Secret Negotiations Between American Jewish Leaders and Arab Officials on the Eve of world War II,[160] by Rafael Medoff, pp. 61-62.)
not as eloquent as many, i will just say i hope the karshes and goldbergs and frums and perles and liebermans and adelsons rot in hell. hell is their true home. it is also an existence they create for others. sharon is already there. may sharon be there an eternity plus.
Take a pill man. And happy nakba day. I haven't seen cards in the drug store yet but I'm sure there coming
How could Nakba cards possibly compete with the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook?
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/most-important-hanukkah-gift-holocaust.html
Holocaust cookbook! I don't know if that was meant to be funny, but the remark had me giggling, and the link had me on the floor.
Hey Bill,
I'm wondering if you invested any money in your cousin Lou's business. He didn't seem to have any compunction at all about fleecing relatives along with the usual stupid suckers!!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-bk-lou-pearlman-boy-band-052108,0,6837694.story
Sentenced to 25 years in prison, but wait. Is that Dersh appearing from a cockroach hole to defend him? Could be, that's just his style. I'd say they'd better grab his passport quick. It's usually at this point that the decision to make aliyah is made…
Maybe he can publish a Holocaust Survivor's investment plan. Start with no money, and let the organized Ashkenazi – Joachim's
"Judonia" or Ed's "Judeo-fascists" – extort billions from the repentant Swiss. Remember, according to the linked article, for each US$1 million he pays the government, the judge will reduce his sentence by one month. He doesn't say that they plan to use the money to help bail out the next Wall Street investment bank that tanks though!!!
PM
BTW, the Girls of Auschwitz calendar was not a flight of fantasy.
Holoporn has been big business in Israel in the past.
See link to eaazi.blogspot.com
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The movie Night Porter may have its origins in Stalags.