Do you remember the name of the novel about the "return of the Jews to their "native" land"? The author's name was maybe Leon Uris??? I read it more than once - was a really good story(?) of the Jews returning to Israel after World War II.. But I remember reading it & thinking well, where do the people move to that have lived there all t…
Do you remember the name of the novel about the "return of the Jews to their "native" land"? The author's name was maybe Leon Uris??? I read it more than once - was a really good story(?) of the Jews returning to Israel after World War II.. But I remember reading it & thinking well, where do the people move to that have lived there all these years? Since I was only 10 in 1948 - obviously, I read the book many years after that - likely in my teens. Even way back then - somehow it did not seem all that one sided. Does anyone here recall the name of that book? It escapes me right now.
Just one more example of "so where do the people who lived here before go" - right?
You have pinned the exact center of the tragedy: Justice for people wrongly expelled from their land, and Justice for the people who are there now, are very hard to reconcile.
What makes it worse, is so many people trying to push a 'one side bad, one side good' narrative. Today there are people justifying, and in some places celebrating, the murder of hundreds of civilians, the severe injuries of thousands in terror attacks, as if the very real problems there make mass murder acceptable..
Yeah - they appear not to understand that there is a difference between hamas & the Palestine people in general. Nice of Israel to "warn" women & children to give them a chance to ?? do what - they arent allowed to leave. The wall prevents that!
The real two-state solution would be one state for everyone who wants to live in peace, and one for the extremists on both sides to fight with each other. It's a cascading tragedy: hamas terrorists mass murdered people in Israel - the count is getting close to a thousand dead, thousands injured - and now the retaliation will kill not only hamas, but also many people in Gaza who are as innocent as the ones being retaliated for.
That's the first time I ever thought about that! Like a Coliseum, and throw the extremists from both sides in, and let them battle it out. (I remember thinking, during the VN war that we needed to put Tricky Dick into the ring with Mao and Pol Pot and let them fight it out.)
Do you remember the name of the novel about the "return of the Jews to their "native" land"? The author's name was maybe Leon Uris??? I read it more than once - was a really good story(?) of the Jews returning to Israel after World War II.. But I remember reading it & thinking well, where do the people move to that have lived there all these years? Since I was only 10 in 1948 - obviously, I read the book many years after that - likely in my teens. Even way back then - somehow it did not seem all that one sided. Does anyone here recall the name of that book? It escapes me right now.
Just one more example of "so where do the people who lived here before go" - right?
The book was titled "Exodus".
I think I’ll read that again.
You have pinned the exact center of the tragedy: Justice for people wrongly expelled from their land, and Justice for the people who are there now, are very hard to reconcile.
Joan, justice never seems to come into the thinking when these tragedies happen. somewhat more one-sided than that.
What makes it worse, is so many people trying to push a 'one side bad, one side good' narrative. Today there are people justifying, and in some places celebrating, the murder of hundreds of civilians, the severe injuries of thousands in terror attacks, as if the very real problems there make mass murder acceptable..
Yeah - they appear not to understand that there is a difference between hamas & the Palestine people in general. Nice of Israel to "warn" women & children to give them a chance to ?? do what - they arent allowed to leave. The wall prevents that!
The real two-state solution would be one state for everyone who wants to live in peace, and one for the extremists on both sides to fight with each other. It's a cascading tragedy: hamas terrorists mass murdered people in Israel - the count is getting close to a thousand dead, thousands injured - and now the retaliation will kill not only hamas, but also many people in Gaza who are as innocent as the ones being retaliated for.
That's the first time I ever thought about that! Like a Coliseum, and throw the extremists from both sides in, and let them battle it out. (I remember thinking, during the VN war that we needed to put Tricky Dick into the ring with Mao and Pol Pot and let them fight it out.)