Reply #88: My congratulations to the family of your friend [View All]

[Aussie_Hillbilly]

A friend of mine was born in a displaced persons' camp in Europe.

My uncle's wife was too. The welcoming of refugees by Western countries after World War 2 is one of the most uplifting chapters of our history, considering the barbarity of the preceding wars and genocide.

So we know what Jews would do if "you and everyone you know were being oppressed by an alien people and had been since you were born in a refugee camp" because we know what they did. Why do you think it's beyond the capacity of Palestinians to do the same and how many generations do you think should be sacrificed to an all or nothing principle?

This comes perilously close to asserting moral equivalence to Palestinians fleeing Israelis and Jews fleeing the Nazis. I sincerely hope the Palestinians living in exile do settle down and become loyal citizens of their new countries, but I fear some will not.

The forced exile of European Jewry and Palestinians (exile of survivors that is) was and is horrible in both instances. Both my grandfathers fought the murdering and dispossession by the Axis Powers on the battlefield. If the war had been lost we would be trying to fight the Axis Powers with every weapon we could use.