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Originally Posted by zraver
For the Jewish and Palestinian peoples, the Holocaust and the Nakba, respectively, represent catastrophes and injustices on an unimaginable scale that can neither be forgotten nor forgiven.
Utter tripe, the Nakba cannot be fairly compared to the Holocuast. It is more properly compared to the expulsion of German speaking peoples from Poland, Russia, Chezklovakia, Baltic and France following the end of WW2 and the redrawing of Germanies borders by the victors. All in responce to the German leaders decision to go to war and national philosophy of discrimination and anti-semtism.
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Even then, a great deal of the Palestinians left voluntarily, granted not because the really wanted to leave, but because Arab governments told them to leave until they could reconquer the whole of the territory. I don't think the Germans were given the same choice when being expelled.
There are quite a few Arab villages still in Israel, who accepted back in 1948 the choice to stay and become members of that state. I've been to them, and I've met the people. Their living standards are anything but subhuman. And they live relatively peacefully alongside with Israelis.
And I agree with Shek, Arathus that was a very well thought out post.