Originally published 3/7/07:
This is a very good post from Lawrence of Cyberia on why asking the Palestinians to recognize Israel’s right to exist is like asking the the black South Africans to recognize the right of the Apartheid regime to exist. He says:
“While every nation’s tragedies are unique, the fact is that the Palestinians are not the only people who have had their modern national consciousness shaped by catastrophe. African-Americans have been shaped by slavery, Jewish Israelis by the Holocaust, and present-day South Africans by apartheid. But Palestinians are the only people that are told they must recognize the “rightness” of the catastrophe that befell them. And we demand this because, in the U.S., Zionism is the prism through which we look at the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
Read the entire article here entitled, “Eggs fail to recognize Omelette’s right to exist”:
http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/news/2007/03/eggs_fail_to_re.html
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