Today on ESPN Skip Bayless said the difference between Andy Pettitte and Barry Bonds is Andy Pettitte apologized for using human growth hormone. We got past it. Today Osama bin Laden's driver apologized to the American people. I like that. I had an argument this week with a friend about the right of return. He was getting into the impossibility of the right of return, how it would overwhelm Israel, etc. This has never been the issue to me. The issue is that a grave injustice was dealt the Palestinian people more than 60 years ago, when hundreds were massacred (yes Jews also were massacred, but fewer), and hundreds of thousands expelled, and their homes taken away from them. They were literally forced into the sea in two great cities of Palestinian life, Haifa and Jaffa. (Forced into the sea; but who do we always hear could be forced into the sea?) Their fields and homes were taken from them. As they are being taken now. And there has never been an apology, let alone reparations. They have been in the equivalent of D.P. camps for more than 60 years, not dissimilar to the DP camps that after a mere two years caused Harry Truman to see an urgency, in 1947, of creating a Jewish state. Yes, the Arab world bears some responsibility. But consider:
I have an old family friend, a Jew, who lives in Germany now, Berlin, with his wife and child. They love Germany. Germany apologized a long time ago.
