I wish this stuff would show up in the American Jewish press! Give us ten years, huh? Amaya Galili has a piece in Hebrew on the spiritual urgency of commemorating the Nakba, on Yedioth Aharonoth. Charles Kamen has made a translation that includes the following sane passages:
Learning about the nakba gives me back a central part of my being, one that has been erased from Israeli identity, from our surroundings, from Israeli education and memory. Learning about the nakba allows me to live here with open eyes, and develop a different set of future relationships in the country, a future of mutual recognition and reconciliation between all those connected to this place.
Accepting responsibility for the nakba and its ongoing consequences obligates me to ask hard questions about the establishment of Israeli society, particularly about how we live today. I want to accept responsibility, to correct this reality, to change it. Not say, “There’s no choice. This is how we’ve survived for 61 years, and that’s how we’ll keep surviving.” It’s not enough for me just to “survive.” I want to live in a society that is aware of its past, and uses it to build a future that can include all the inhabitants of the country and all its refugees.
Recognizing and implementing the right of return are necessary conditions for creating that future. The refugees’ right of return is both individual and collective. Return does not mean more injustice and the expulsion of the country’s Jewish inhabitants. As has occurred elsewhere in the world, ways can be found to implement the return of the refugees without expelling the country’s current residents.
Wonderful. The younger generation. Feels like the best hope to a happy ending.
no. fake israels's current "residents" (vicious occupiers), less maybe 2, need to be expelled.
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Imagine the pretzel logic of those who support Israel's right of return as a humanistic principle, an ethical one, yet do not support the Palestinian right of return. I can't see how they do it but by conflating ethnic and ethical, which boils down to: better thee, than me. And, err….wasn't that what the Churchill playlet evoked?
Hey, the guy is trying! Remember, most Israelis do not have the same sources of information as us. A settler-colony must use every resource, including education, to advance its aims. It is hard to tell an education from an indoctrination if you have no means of comparison. How's about a little Jewish chauvanism? Call me a nut, but deep down I believe that if anybody could ameliorate the I-P situation, and make some kind of settlement, the Jews can. If they can keep the Zionists from screwing it up, that is.
How likely is it that you'll find this article in the US? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/... It's very similar to an article I found in Ha'eretz last week
She's awesome, and the organization she's representing here – Zochrot – has been doing beautiful things. Simple, but touching work, like replacing hebrew street signs with new signs that include the real names, from before the mass ethnic cleansing. I awesome from her awesomeness that she's the daughter of Lily Galili, a long-time indefatigable voice of opposition to Israeli racism, and particularly within the Israeli left.
I support Israeli right of return. To Queens. To Peoria. To whatever shithole they came from. Jews–out of Palestine.
one state with a shooting zoo where jews go to shoot hobbled palestinians. sorta like the great white hunter dickus cheney going to a quail farm and shooting cliped-winged quails. of course jews will not target shoot every day. their sabbath will be a day of rest and scalp admiring.
@ Mooser "It is hard to tell an education from an indoctrination if you have no means of comparison. " Pretty pithy, Mooser. Although there is Haartze, the IDF vet protesters tell us most Israeli's just get very filtered info, just as average Americans get in the USA. Working jobs, just trying to provide for their families, neither much uses their after hour free time to troll the internet for other than gossip, home garden tips, health tips, or sports data. With no ocean separating them, from their enemies or would be friends, I don't know how many Israelis keep their heads in the sand so well.
It's ethnic cleansing by the Zionist regime and has been so way before "Israel" became a state! Who invaded who here? Palestine WAS inhabited by the native Palestinians. The Zionist terrorists came in at the turn of the century and slowly used terror to take over parts of Palestine until 1948 where it called itself a state…built on OTHER peoples land who they terrorized. Now, they complain that the Palestinians are terrorists for wanting their OWN land back, or at least half of it. No, that is NOT terrorism, in the USA during the revolution they were called Freedom Fighters. Problem is the Zionists have their hands in too many gov'ts making decisions that is causing this situation starting with Britain! Now they get angry when ppl deny the holocaust but they hide the genocide of the Palestinians who they are wiping out in an "ethnic cleansing". So let's call a pot a pot here and stop praising Israel for slaughtering INNOCENT woman and children, especially pregnant woman! They are war criminals and Norway has already brang the case to it's court and the outcome was NOT good for Israel. ALL countries should do this if they value life. And I don't want to hear about the baby rockets Gaza is firing compared to the weapontry that Israel is using, especially Chemical warfare to which the like has never been seen on an innocent civilian population. And DON"T give me that OLD arguement that most are terrorists, what a bunch of horse dung….yeah, a 5 yr old is a terrorist, so he should be shot, which he usually is. All the info is on the internet, you just have to go look for it!
We like to do that.