Haaretz
While we are still desperately concealing, denying and repressing our major ethnic cleansing of 1948 - over 600,000 refugees, some who fled for fear of the Israel Defense Forces and its predecessors, some who were expelled by force - it turns out that 1948 never ended, that its spirit is still with us.
It happened on the day after Independence Day, when Israel was immersed
in praise of itself and its democracy almost ad nauseam, and on the eve
of (virtually outlawed ) Nakba Day, when the Palestinian people mark the
"catastrophe" - the anniversary of the creation of Israel. My colleague
Akiva Eldar published what we have always known but for which we lacked
the shocking figures he revealed: By the time of the Oslo Accords,
Israel had revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians from the West
Bank. In other words, 14 percent of West Bank residents who dared to go
abroad had their right to return to Israel and live here denied forever.
In other words, they were expelled from their land and their homes. In
other words: ethnic cleansing.
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"By the time of the Oslo Accords, Israel had revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians from the West Bank. In other words, 14 percent of West Bank residents who dared to go abroad had their right to return to Israel and live here denied forever. In other words, they were expelled from their land and their homes. In other words: ethnic cleansing. "
ReplyDelete"The revelation of the policy of denying residency has proved that this secret dream is in effect the establishment's secret dream. There one doesn't talk about transfer, heaven forfend; nobody would think of calling it cleansing. They don't load Arabs onto trucks as they once did, including after the Six-Day War, and they don't shoot at them to chase them away - all politically incorrect methods in the new world. But in effect that's the goal."
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