Comments on: Packaging nakba https://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806 Cutting straight to the point Thu, 15 May 2008 15:09:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Soccerdad https://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806/comment-page-1#comment-31909 Tue, 13 May 2008 03:53:20 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=4806#comment-31909 I’m not blaming Arab nations for failing to make things easier, for the West. I’m blaming them for keeping their brethren as political pawns instead of absorbing them as Israel did for their Jewish brethren who were driven from their homes in the Arab world.

In other words I wouldn’t describe the situation the same way Paglia did. Simply put Paglia is wrong.

]]> By: Lefty https://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806/comment-page-1#comment-31907 Tue, 13 May 2008 02:45:52 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=4806#comment-31907 Both “nakba” events are actually similar in that they involve violent Arab resistance to political boundaries imposed on them by Western imperialists.

And as Camille Paglia writes, “To blame Arab nations for failing to make things easier for the West by absorbing the Palestinians into their populations is both futile and ethically problematic.” I’m not as forgiving of the Arabs as Paglia, but she has a point.

]]> By: Maquis https://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806/comment-page-1#comment-31905 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:18:16 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=4806#comment-31905 D’oh! Forgot the link:
http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/articles/101/article_66103.asp

]]> By: Maquis https://www.yourish.com/2008/05/12/4806/comment-page-1#comment-31904 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:17:34 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=4806#comment-31904 There’s a picture of Poor Pals on RFI wearing “Nakba Survivor” t-shirts like they are doing Disneyland or something, as part of a sob-story about how Israeli Arabs don’t feel like they belong. Your post on the meaning of the word and the history of it’s use was quite timely.

Good to see the Global Media keeping it balanced!

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