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Leftists mark Palestinian ‘Nakba Day’
Aviram Zino
Published: 11.05.08, 23:28
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1. there was a WAR there, by their arab brthers
Giuseppe ,   Italy   (05.12.08)
I want to know if this bunch of morons knows history. Never heard of arab countries attacking jews in 1948? UMBELIAVABLE
2. Dear editor, thank you for revealing your own bias
Daniel Pinner ,   Kfar Tapuach, Israel   (05.12.08)
Isn't it interesting how Israelis who oppose the very existence of their own State are merely "left-wing activists", while those who support Israel are "right-wing extremists". You reveal your own fanatical left-wing sympathies here. For merely supporting Israel's right to exist, a protestor becomes a "right-wing extremist" in your columns. What, pray, makes them extremists? Believing that Jews have a right to breathe? Opposing terrorism? And beyond calling for Israel's extermination, what more does a leftist have to do to become an extremist on ynet? - Call for all Jews to be thrown into the sea? Blow himself apart on a bus in Jerusalem? Fire Kassam rockets atv Sderot? Or would you refer to them, too, as "left-wing activists"? How about: 200 violent left-wing fanatics marched together with Arab terrorists, mourning the existence of the State of Israel and calling for it to be exterminated. Four Zionists arrived on the scene, and insisted that Israel has a right to exist - which provoked the terrorists and their supporters into fury.
3. Leftines will destroy Israel
Hendrik ,   Germany   (05.12.08)
I feel really bad about it. Am not supporting radical , but i do support people who support Israel and stand against palestinian LIES! God bless Israel!
4. Arabs are the arch-invaders, imperialists, and land-grabbers
Jake   (05.12.08)
5. sorry we won
bob ,   potomac md and TA   (05.12.08)
sorry we won the war--we didn't mean to: that's the message that the Jewish leftists are giving. . they think that to be powerless is a virtue Jewish leftists, if the Arabs defeat Isrel, do you think your own throats will be immune from slashing just be cause you dhimmied up?
6. #2 everybody has the right to exist
human ,   Durham USA   (05.12.08)
right wing extremists are those who believe in their OWN right to exist and not other's. there are both zionsit right wing extremists and islamist right wing extremists. the Left is usually a reaction to right wing extremism, and thus cannot be "extreme" in the political and social sense. in other words, the left is only "left" relative to the "right".. I hope I made this pont clear. in any case, avoiding being called an "extremist" is quite simple: acknowledge the existance of others who are not YOU.
7. My husband still carries his rusted key on his neck
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (05.12.08)
Today we stood 2 minutes in silence with my husband to mark al Nakba. My beloved husband was weeping when he told us about the history of the key. It brings tears to my eyes just to think about it.
8. My grandmother still has her key to her home in Hebron
Eran ,   Israel   (05.12.08)
that the Arabs stole off her and her family in 1929. Yaakov Sullivan my family suffered at the hands of Arabs before the creation of the state of Israel. What is so special about your husband case? Are you forgetting that 1 million Jews from Arabs lands were made homeless by the Arabs..........how easy you forget.
9. This article is proof that liberals are MENTALLY ILL
Seymour Schwartz ,   Minneapolis, MN   (05.12.08)
Only a stupid, mentally ill liberal would protest to help people who have been sworn to kill you---and have been doing so for 1,300 years. When it comes to islam, war IS THE ANSWER
10. Nakba=the losers want the spoils
Daniel ,   TA and DC   (05.12.08)
1948 Israel is created out of the division of a major land mass called The British Palestinian Mandate (more than half of which at one time included Jordan) through UN resolution. Attacked immediately from all neighboring Arabs the fledging Jewish State did something no one expected; it survived. It did not do so easily. Areas that were supposed to be under Jewish or International control were suddenly under Arab Control and areas that were supposed to be under Arab control were under Jewish Control. Now the Arabs that lost that war want everything including restoration of what they see as conquered territory. Perhaps an OED or Arabic equivalent should be given to their leaders instead. They should look up the words, "loser", and "lost." They lost and therefore there is NO NEED for them to cry NAKBA the only tradgedy here is their reinvention of history.
11. The Arabs tried & failed to commit genocide.
bob ,   LOS ANGELES   (05.12.08)
For the Palestinians the 'catastrophe' was that together with Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon they failed to destroy Israel in 1948. The Arabs were certain, as were the British, that Israel would lose and the Jerws would all be killed. No country came to help. The Palestinians have reaped the bitter fruits of their violent denial of the Jews' right to self-determination alongside 23 Arab states. The Palestinians still feel the same way and elected Hamas in 2006. Their anti-Jewish hate is unlikely to end for many generations if ever.
12. The only catastrophe is when Abraham took Hagar and ...
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (05.12.08)
Begat you know who! If this is the way that Arab Israelis feel about the country that feeds them, gives them social services, a pretty good health care system and a state pension in their old age, then maybe we Zionist Israelis should think twice about where we spend our money. Why support doctors, lawyers, businesses and tradesmen who hate you and all you stand for? I am sure that many of the readers of YnetNews will say this "nakba" thing is Freedom of Speech but I would like to know how Americans, Canadians, New Zealanders and Australians would react if a citizen of their country called the White occupation of their land a "nakba" or catastrophe. There is a very big difference to the colonization of those countries and Israel. Jews have been living in this are for 3,500 years! Now, who is the occupier?
13. When will displaced Jews demonstrate?
Millie ,   Israel   (05.12.08)
Dispaced Jews, many, many more than the so-called Palestinians, who were truly forced to flee their homes in Muslim lands should start demonstrating to receive proper compensation or a return of their properties in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Iran, Tunisia, Morroco, Libya, Algeria, etc., etc. They have keys and property deeds too.
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