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So What Is The Largest Obstacle For Peace In The Middle East?

July 29, 2010 · Mustapha Hamoui

It’s not the occupation. It’s not the strangling siege and definitely not the daily humiliation, according Sol Stern. It’s the Palestinian “Obsession With The Nakba”:

The Nakba is the heart of the Palestinians’ backward-looking national narrative, which depicts the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as the original sin that dispossessed the land’s native people. Every year, on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, more and more Palestinians (including Arab citizens of Israel) commemorate the Nakba with pageants that express longing for a lost paradise. Every year, the legend grows of the crimes committed against the Palestinians in 1948, crimes now routinely equated with the Holocaust

And the logical conclusion for fools like him is that the Palestinian refugees like those in Lebanon have no business returning to their homeland.