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Nakba Myth Stands in the Way of Peace

(Canadian Jewish News) Gerald Steinberg - In the Arab/Palestinian narrative, Jewish sovereign equality in the Land of Israel was and remains a disaster. In the Nakba fabrication, 4,000 years of Jewish history in this land are erased and replaced with a Europe and Western conspiracy to settle Jews in "Arab/Muslim Palestine." The Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan (the 1947 version of the "two-state solution"), and the wars designed to push the Jews into the sea are also removed from the Nakba tale. The fact that an approximately equal number of Jews in Arab nations were forced out and absorbed successfully into Israel is also erased. A realistic peace process must first tackle the Nakba mythology, which has been allowed to fester and expand for so long. This means teaching basic facts - that the Jewish people have an undisputed historic connection with this territory - with the right to an independent state - and that the violent Arab rejection of compromise and the two-state solution in 1947/8, as well as the later wars, were responsible for the "suffering of the refugees."
2011-06-17 00:00:00
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