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NYTimes gives Abbas space to puff Paleo Independence |
2011-05-17 |
SIXTY-THREE years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home actually, his family left voluntarily - he has admitted this in other places in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his family to Syria. He took up shelter in a canvas tent provided to all the arriving refugees. Though he and his family wished for decades to return to their home and homeland, they were denied that most basic of human rights so they don't care about the 1967 lines - the whole point is to eliminate Israel followed by ethnic cleansing or genocide - whatever. That child's story, like that of so many other Palestinians, is mine. This month, however, as we commemorate another year of our expulsion -- which we call the nakba, or catastrophe -- the Palestin |
Posted by:Lord Garth |