For six decades the Palestinian refugees have been refused their right to return home because they are of the wrong race. ""Israel" must remain a Jewish state," is an almost sacral mantra across the Western political spectrum. It means, in practice, that "Israel" is accorded the right to be an ethnocracy at the expense of the refugees and their descendants, now close to 5 million.
Is it not understandable that "Israel's" ethnic preoccupation profoundly offends not only Palestinians, but many of their Arab brethren? Yet rather than demanding that "Israel" acknowledge its foundational wrongs as a first step toward equality and coexistence, the Western world blithely insists that each and all must recognize "Israel's" right to exist at the Palestinians' expense.
Western discourse seems unable to accommodate a serious, as opposed to cosmetic concern for Palestinians' rights and liberties: The Palestinians are the Indians who refuse to live on the reservation; the Negroes who refuse to sit in the back of the bus.
By what moral right does anyone tell them to be realistic and get over themselves? That it is too much of a hassle to right the wrongs committed against them? That the front of the bus must remain ethnically pure? When they refuse to recognize their occupier and embrace their racial inferiority, when desperation and frustration causes them to turn to violence, and when neighbors and allies come to their aid - some for reasons of power politics, others out of idealism - we are astonished that they are all such fanatics and extremists.
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