From: M. Hazani List Editor: Lloyd deMause
<[email protected]> Editor's Subject: Why Are
Palistinians Rioting? (M. Hazani) Author's Subject: Re:
Why Are Palestinians Rioting? Date Written: Thu, 18 May
2000 08:10:33 +0200 Date Posted: Thu, 18 May 2000
07:44:55 -0500
I live in Jerusalem, some eight hundred feet from thre eastern (i.e.,
Palestinian) part of the city. I do agree stongly with David Harley. The
Palestinian riots began on May 15, the day of Israel's declaration of
independence in 1948 (Israel celebrates its Independence Day on another
date, according to the Hebrew calendar). May 15 symbolizes, for the
Palestinans, the disaster of their losing their land in the 1948 war. They
call this disaster "NACBA" (Arabic for HOLOCAUST). May 15, then, is the
Palestinian equivalent of the Israeli-Jewish Holocaust Day, which
cemmemorates the WW II Holocaust. The Palestinians study Zionist history,
and as it happened more than once in history, they are inpired by the enemy
and follow some of its instances, e.g., they view themselves as the Zionist
undergound organizatitons that fought agaist the British. Likewise, they
call their disaster "NACBA." BTW, the Israeli-Jewish Holocaust Day falls a
week beforw Israeli Independence Day - i.e., only several days separate the
NACBA Day from the Israeli-Jewish Holocaust Day: this is no coincidence!
These facts are known to me (and to many other Israelis), because the
Palestinains speak about them freely. I do not see any irrationality in
Palestinian behavior. I am a Zionist, but if I were a Palestinian , I would
do what they do. We Jews have waited two thousand years to return to our
homeland. Without blaming ourselves for the Palstinian suffering, we can
understand those who want to return to their home only a half-century after
they left it. Moshe Hazani
