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[quote=Anonymous]From a more moderate Jewish perspective considering that almost the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Palestine]entire world recognizes[/url] that Palestine and Palestinians exist and that [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution]two states should exist[/url].

[u][url=https://themarkaz.org/a-jewish-meditation-on-the-palestinian-genocide/]A Jewish Meditation[/url] on the Palestinian Genocide[/u]
By [url=https://promisedlandmuseum.org/sheryl-ono/]Sheryl Ono[/url]

We all were told that Palestine was barren and uninhabited before the Zionist movement in the early 1900s. In truth, half a million Arabs were living there when European Jews first showed up to declare it Eretz Yisrael, the land of the Jewish people, biblically ordained. Arabs were the majority population for at least thirteen centuries and enjoyed a good relationship with the small Jewish community in Palestine. But as the European immigrants bought up land, they began evicting the Arabs who had been farming it. Tensions spilled over to periodic violence, which continued back and forth in the decades before the UN vote on partition.

“Of course the Palestinians resisted Zionism,” said Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter in England. “As long as someone knocks on that window and says ‘I used to live there two thousand years ago,’ it’s okay. But if he begins to live in my house, I will try and kick [him] out. It’s a natural right of colonized people to try and kick out the colonialists… Now, Israelis don’t understand it. Israelis don’t know that they colonized Palestine. They really think they came to an empty land and these nasty Palestinians started to attack them.” Pappé has said that he believed the same while growing up in Haifa and serving in the army. It was not until his doctoral work at Oxford, when Israel began declassifying military files from the period, that he was first confronted with the truth.

I have been afraid to put my thoughts in print, knowing what will come back at me. I am even more worried about the state of my relationship with friends and family. Months ago, my much-loved cousin asked, “can’t we agree to disagree?” In any other circumstance my answer would be unequivocally yes. But the voice of my parents would echo in my head if I agreed to overlook this subject. Over the years, they returned to a question that gnawed at them: how did ordinary Germans carry on with their lives and stay silent? My parents never forgave the silent ones, never would set foot in Germany, never would buy a German car.

I can’t agree to disagree.[/quote]

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