The world is changing. The Associated Press has
a wonderful story on the Nakba.
Israel’s joy over independence after two millennia of Jewish exile has been the Palestinians’ "naqba" — their catastrophe. The state they were to have in a partitioned Holy land was made stillborn by the 1948 war. The 1967 war that brought the West Bank and Gaza under Israeli rule doubled the catastrophe.
Leila Abu-Saba, who informed me, writes: "I never
thought I would see this story in an AP newswire.
I wish my [Lebanese-American Christian] father had
lived to see it..."
Yes, and some day President Obama will talk about the Nakba...
