The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba

 

Palestinians have long suffered for the West's unresolved history with its Jewish population. As Israel carries out its final ethnic cleansing, the world still refuses to act

As Israel reaches its 77th year of existence, its endgame for the Palestinians looks closer than ever. 

Unbelievable as it may seem, Israel is moving steadily towards emptying Gaza and the West Bank of their native inhabitants - a Palestinian eradication from the land it has pursued since before its inception.

This horrific prospect, which the world watches without lifting a finger, evokes for me vivid memories of the 1948 Nakba, when Israel carried out the first mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.

Then, as now, no one intervened. 

I was a child at the time, but I remember thinking the world had come to an end. My fellow Palestinians and I spent the rest of our lives recovering from that cataclysmic shock.

Never did I imagine that, so many decades later, something far worse could happen.  (more...)

The West made us pay for its guilt - and now watches as Israel delivers the final Nakba