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

[Ken Burch]

7. If you want Palestinians to respect(as they should)the historic pain suffered by the Jews

Than you have to get Israel to respect and acknowledge the pain Palestinians experienced in 1948 and the years afterwords, as well.

Only when the wounds are healed, or at least healing, can you expect the anger to lessen. And the Palestinians will only make different choices when the anger and the pain are acknowledged.

It's just as wrong to tell somebody in a Palestinian refugee camp, whose village was destroyed for no reason and who can never come home to "get over it" as it was for anyone to say something like that to Otto Frank when he found out his whole family was gone. What Zionism did to Palestinians wasn't the equivalent to the Holocaust, but both experiences left deep scars on those who experienced and survived them, and the victims of both were both largely innocent. Only if the victimhood on both sides is accepted as legitimate can the process of ending the war begin.