Ghitis on Mideast Rage
from the oh-yeah?-take-that! dept.
The L.A. Times has an opinion piece by Frida Ghitis titled Weapons of Rage Are Fed With the Ammunition of Suffering. It’s a pretty good discussion of the emotional underpinnings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on how the current leadership is caught firmly in a seemingly unbreakable cycle of suffering and revenge. The one criticism I’d make is that it suffers itself from a selective historical myopia, managing to recall the mistreatment of Jews by Nazis in World War II, but leaving the events that made the Palestinians a nation of refugees shrouded in the mists of time. Still, it offers a fairly balanced view, something increasingly hard to find these days.
August 23rd, 2004 at 7:02 am
The “Palestinians” were never a nation. They were not permitted to have a State neither by Egypt nor Jordan. Only after we captured (liberated) Gaza and the Territories could the Arabs living there and in other former historical Jewish land dream of having a State. Who are the “Palestinians”? What really have we taken away from them?
When did they have a State, a currency, any sign of an organized comunity? We just want to destroy us, and you are just blind. Many Israelis are like you, though, so do not feel too bad.