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Shy Boy's avatar

I can't take seriously a narrative of "the roots of Palestinian identity, free from any false or propagandistic fodder" that completely omits any of the well-documented historical facts of the 1948 Nakba.

https://ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html

It doesn't matter what these people called themselves or what their national aspirations were. That's just obfuscating criminal conduct and human suffering. They were there, and they were murdered en masse, and forcibly evicted from their generational homes. Women and children! Noncombatants.

Honest Israelis, common people, acknowledge this festering wound at the center of their own national identity. You'd do well to listen to them and take another step back from the propaganda machine.

https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel

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EZTejas123's avatar

Then tell the whole story. No hands were clean in this. There displacements were on both sides, and the Arab governments encouraged and threatened residents to flee. These are historical facts too, if they don't align with the narrative.

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Shy Boy's avatar

Absolutely. I have more Israeli friends than Arab friends, but I'm not taking a side here. I'm just advocating for honest history.

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

The Nakba is like the Maidan 2014 coup. Never mentioned, didn’t exist, total misinformation.

The Palestinians got punished for Germany’s (and Europe’s) crimes.

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EZTejas123's avatar

Far more Arab citizens in Israel, than Jews in the rest of the Arab world.

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Duncan A Turner's avatar

Yeah - The Arabs have virtually expelled the Jews from all of their nations. A gradual process over many decades. Now they want to expel them from their ancestral homeland as well. A more honest slogan would be, "From the mountains to the sea, the whole Arab world will be Jew-Free". Arab nations are not democracies. They have no freedom of thought, they have their own version of a "hive mind" full of rage and hatred towards every Jew on the planet.

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CStone's avatar

What a pack of lies you have swallowed.

How sad.

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