Reply #158: Yr excused... [View All]

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Yes, Gimel. I know the Arabs who were demonstrating are citizens of Israel. I didn't say they weren't. But all those Palestinians that were expelled from Israel aren't Israeli citizens because Israel refused to let them return to their homes. Did you realise that it's not just Arab citizens of Israel that commemorate the Nakba? Probably not in large numbers currently, but it's a start to a general acknowledgement throughout the Israeli population of what was done at the time. I was reading somewhere that it took over 100 years before Americans started to acknowledge what was done to their indigenous population, so maybe in another couple of decades the romanticised and highly inaccurate portrayals of what happened in 1948 will be a thing of the past...

Yr second paragraph makes zero sense, and I'm guessing it's because it's got nothing to do with what was being said...

D'uh. Where did I say other states weren't militarised? I didn't....

If you were trying to do a parallel hypothetical situation, perhaps you should have said something along the lines of: 'In any other country that was created in 1948 with the intent of one specific ethnic group being in the vast majority and obtaining that by ethnically cleansing a great number of the existing indigenous population, they would be run off.' Doesn't really matter, because while I have no doubts that in Israel there exists some folk who deny that any wrongdoing was done to the Palestinians at the time and who actually think that anyone daring to commemorate the Nakba should be run out of the country, they wouldn't be run out in any other country that had the same political structures etc as Israel...

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