Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?

[Ken Burch]

3. The ones forced to flee should also receive apologies

AND an admission that they did nothing whatsoever to deserve having their homes destroyed and being forced into exile. Those working to create Israel never needed to force anyone out of their homes.

If any Palestinians were proven to have been driven from their homes by Arab propaganda broadcasts(no recordings or listener station transcripts of which have ever emerged)than they should receive compensation, apologies and acknowledgement from any Arab forces found to have driven them to that decision.

It is crucial to not only provide financial compensation, but to admit that unjust suffering was inflicted and that those who experienced that suffering had a right to feel aggrieved.

You have to acknowledge the wrongs on ALL levels, not just cut people a check and tell them to "suck it up".

Half of this conflict has its based in a refusal to admit that people, on both sides, really DID suffer unjustly. The reality of these people and their pain has to be acknowledged if there is to be any hope at all of ending it.