No Right of Return

During recent years I have watched caring Israeli and Palestinian peace activists who are email friends become more and more appalled by the Israeli abuses of the occupied Palestinians. I mention two in particular:

Dorothy Naor

http://peacetalksradio.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-israeli-peace-activist.html

and Khalid Amayreh

http://www.p4pd.org/lifestories1.html

Khalid came to consciousness with the awareness that a number of his close relatives had been murdered during the course of the establishment of Israel in 1948. The game in those days was not unlike that today in Gaza -- brutal military killing and wounding of civilians which drove many into exile. One has heard of the follow up -- no right of return.

I shall return now to the CNN coverage of the current incursion. I hope that others will at least grasp the reasons for Palestinian resentment towards Israel.
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