Having a California Bachelor of Arts in Communication, I studied my share of the Palestine & Israeli conflicts.
As far as I know, to put it bluntly, at the end of WWII, the Allies had millions of homeless Jewish people that they needed to find a place for. So the Allies forced the Palenstinian's to move from their beautiful homes with beach front access, into the middle of the desert!!! The Palestinian's were forced to give up their land to the Israeli's.
The fight will never end until the Palenstine's are given back their land. The Allies chose the wrong group of people to displace. It's too bad.
SUHEIR HAMMAD (Poet), who hails from Brooklyn, has been called "a new voice with an authentic blend of language that's her own, and music that belongs to the streets" (Elmaz Abinader, author of Children of the Roojme). Suheir's appearance on the debut episode of HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry" merited generous media praise.
While working as a Server at The Palomare's Cafe in my hometown of Castro Valley, CA, three of my co-workers were Palestinian women working as Servers too. They are a proud, hardworking people. They spoke of Palestine often. I'm obviously generalizing, having only known a few of them, but it was interesting at how many languages they spoke, and their understandings of happenings around the World.
Please, if I have my history wrong, or if you would like to add any comments, please feel free to let me know that I'm wrong, or add to the conversation! We must remember though, that Israel is our strongest military ally in the Middle East, America cannot afford to lose Israel as a foothold in that region of the World.
The history is a little wrong. There has been a small number of Jews in Israel for thousands of years, but in the 1800s a movement began to settle more Jews in the area. This was a peaceful migration until WW2 with land purchased legally. It is also important to note that while there were many Palestinians in Israel - they didn't control the government the Turks did.
ReplyDeleteIt is important to note that there was no "Israel" in the 1800's. It didn't exist until 1948 when it was illegally created by the British & the USA, without the consent of the Palestinians.
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That was will not stop until Palestinians love their children more then they hate Israelis.
ReplyDeleteWell I can tell you how the United States eventually won the war with native americans. But I doubt you'd like that option.
ReplyDeleteWell look up the trail of tears to get an idea.
ReplyDeleteMany cliche's can be said for this entire conflict, a rock and a hard place, etc...
ReplyDeleteI believe your right. International outrage would cause countries to turn on each other and choose sides, America and Israel against the rest of the World, of course Canada would be on our side.
I think the fighting will simply continue with no peace treaties upheld during our lifetimes.
Hopefully a generation later in time will come along for both the Israeli's and the Palestinian's, and both sides will realize that killing one another is not the solution.
Neither the "allies" nor the Jewish people forced the Palestinian's from Palestine. When the Nation of Israel was formed the rest of the Arab countries vowed to push the Jews into the sea. They informed the Palestinians if they were still there when that happened they would be killed along with the Jews unless they left the country. Up until that time the Palestinians were allowed to own their own homes and lands, but when they left they of course forfitted that right. The rest of the Arab world is to blame for the refugee camps and the suffering of the Palestinians.
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