Monketi Ghost
Confusion Reactor
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I already told you I think this is a simplistic worldview.
Oh, yes yes, the nature of the oppression is so complex and nuanced.
I already told you I think this is a simplistic worldview.
I'm for the underdog, by nature. Now I look at the Israel/"Palestine"situation, and I see an oppressed side and an oppressor. Pardalis, I got no axe to grind in this old fight, but a large portion of the world sees the same thing, and I agree.
The Naqba refers to the ethnic cleansing of the Arabs, not to the declaration of independence of Israel.
The word refers to an historic fact.
Is the name "Trail of Tears" a reminder of a state of injustice? And I'm sure that you, as a Canadian, or a_u_p as Australian, can come up with words used to describe the treatment of the native populations.
And how did the US, Canada, Australia cope with the injustice done to the native populations? By acknowledging the injustice, offering apologies and programs to address their dire situation. Israel, on the other hand, doesn't even acknowledge injustice has been done to the Palestinians, the native population, as this thread evidences. Apparently, they just felt like going away? That position comes awfully close to Holocaust denialism.
But you just did. And isn't that boiled down view you give above essentially correct? In both cases, people were removed from their homes.
Creates resentment, doesn't it?
Maybe it's never happened to you though. Maybe, nobody's ever come through your neighborhood and forced you to move out so others could take what was yours and then deny it was ever "really" yours to begin with.
By comparison, the uprooting of the greater part of the Arab population of Israel can be undone in the sense that they, their children or grandchildren could be given a home in either Israel or the Territories.
I'm surprised no-one has yet mentioned how ludicrous the claims of the Israeli side in the debate about the contents of Palestinian textbooks sound in light of this measure. Not even one, factual sentence how most Arabs describe the 1948 war, is allowed - in textbooks for Israeli Arabs, the textbooks for Israeli Jews don't even mention this at all.
Basis for a peace with which the majority of the people on both sides can live is to understand the perception of the "other". Apparently, Netanyahu does not want that to happen on the Israeli side?
But you are a moral relativist.
A "perspective" that serves to feed the JEWISH psychosis of victimization
And, there has been no ethnic cleansing of Arabs by Jews, rendering "Nakba" ahistorical, anti-Israeli propaganda.
You are the moral relativist. I just said the same principal applies, you said that when you compare the two, one is much worse than the other.
Was there a Jewish Holocaust?Was there a Palestinian holocaust?
was there a "Nakba"
yes....
but you want one of these events carefully erased.. The Nakba is a fact, like the Holocaust...
They are mourning. Mourning the deaths and displacement of close family members. They don't have the luxury of distance that you have to enable them to process it through a filter of Ignorance and offensive bigotry....
I asked if there was a Palestinian holocaust. Your response is a non-response of gibberish.
Your statements are a dizzying mass of confusion and ahistorical misinformation. The Holocaust entailed the systematic and deliberate extermination of Jews and other people. The Nakba is an invented concept applied to the legal and legitimate establishment of the sovereign state of Israel, which, ironically, entailed a war initiated by Arabs calling for a second Jewish holocaust and trying their best to bring those exhortations of genocide to fruition. That they failed to do so points to the determination and military skill of Jews and the ineptitude of the Arabs. Arabs are their own nakba.
Unfortunately for your argument the nakba did happen...
Lol.....something you deny....What is the nakba?
Lol.....something you deny....
sorry, nor playing games with Nakba deniers. It doesn't matter how much evidence you are provided with. Evidence of Arab suffering....you are not interested in suffering arabs, only suffering Jews.
Its an event of death and displacement on a large scale that didn't happen to people that don't exist... Despite a lot of people actually being there and seeing it.....Answer the question, if you are able to do so. What is the nakba?
Its an event of death and displacement on a large scale...
Took long enough to get a response. How many deaths occurred, exactly? And, what was the underlying cause of "displacement on a large scale"?