Comments on: Today’s insult

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:42:55 +0000

Barak actually made that offer, as part of President Clinton’s last-ditch attempt to rescue the Camp David accords. Arafat rejected it, because the first-generation refugees alone wouldn’t present a security risk to Israel.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:03:21 +0000

The article doesn’t mention terrorism explicitly but at least it mentions the intifada. I wouldn’t call the article an insult, though; it simply describes how the Palestinian refugee sees himself. Whether he really is a righteous victim or just a self-pitying old coot is left to the reader.

I do wonder if Israel should just admit the first-generation refugees. There can’t be that many of them alive anymore, and if Zaharan is representative, they wouldn’t pose much of a security risk.

By: Tatterdemalian

Tatterdemalian — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:18:47 +0000

“Maybe not to return to Jaffa from where his family fled as it waited for the mighty Arab armies to destroy the nascent Jewish state so it could return.”

Heck, even those rights are not sufficient. He would demand restoration of the land to the condition it was in when he left, or rather how he imagines it, ten million billion hojillion acres of olive trees and marble homes, with streets paved with gold and rivers of honey and ambrosia, and the war must continue until Israel provides all these things.

If they cannot be at your throat, they will imagine themselves under your heel.