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."
