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Reminder: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300127270 & http://www.meforum.org/522/the-smoking-gun-arab-immigration-into-palestine The easy story that makes thugs of Jews and victims of innocent Palestinian, may not be the true story — and it’s not: “The Palestinians who were forced out of their homes . . . .” What about the Palestinians who fled their homes in advance of Arab columns and the promised destruction of Israel and the Jews? How is it that Arab Muslims and Christians came to comprise 20 percent of Israel’s fully enfranchised citizenry? What does one make of the camps of Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria (yesterday’s Syria) in which Arab states have penned and manipulated and diminished the very people their armies abandoned in the field?
The prompt was the opening sentence of a bit of advice to the Palestinian leadership.
Around thugs, I suppose, it’s easier to live with a loyal lie — and attempt to live out that lie — than it is to wrestle with an uncomfortable but reliable truth.
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