Published: 4 May 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ALUF BENN: “It’s a country’s duty to its citizens, who deserve to know what was here first so they can understand the reasons and motives for what’s happening now”
Jewish Israelis should stop being afraid of the Nakba (Haaretz)
ALUF BENN: A country must not run from its past, even when it’s not pleasant to deal with and raises difficult moral questions. It’s a country’s duty to its citizens, who deserve to know what was here first so they can understand the reasons and motives for what’s happening now – the nation-state law, the repeated failure of the ‘Anyone but Bib’” parties to create a Jewish-Arab governing coalition, Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, and also the Buyer’s Price affordable housing in the country’s outskirts.
Photo: A Palestinian refugee holds a key, allegedly from her old house, during a rally in the West Bank town of Ramallah before Nakba Day in 2015. (EPA/ATEF SAFADI)
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