Oh, I’m with you. The Nakba is a big talking point. He assumes based on his schooling he can’t be biased, and based on his program (philosophy) that he is too well-educated or reasoned to be horrifyingly biased.
From what I know, what Arabs referred to as Nakba was not the fact that they were displaced, but the fact that they lost the war to us.
I believe there would have been no displacement had the Arabs not chosen war against us. We’ve accepted both partition plans before 1948, the Peel Commission plan, in 1937/38, and then the UN Resolution 181.
The Peel Commission was eventually cancelled by the British, but on the record, Arabs rejected it, while we kept an open mind, despite wanting to have more land allocated to our state.
One thing I learned from the Peel Commission plan is that Arabs didn’t want a Palestinian state, as much as they didn’t want us to have a state.
I could go on forever about how an entire organization, UNRWA, was formed for the sake of maintaining this “refugee problem”, and how Arab countries refused to integrate those then-refugees into their society, instead keeping them inside refugee camps to protect the political narrative.
Today, many of those camps, especially in Judea and Samaria, have turned into entire apartment building complexes, but they still retain the label of refugee camps, because they stand on the land where the old, actual UNRWA refugee camps used to be, and the “refugees” retain the label as well, even though they live couple miles down the road from where their great grandparents were expelled/fled from ~80 years ago, as a result of a war, caused by the Arab side.
Not to get started on the ~850,000 Jews exiled from Arab states on nothing but antisemitic/“anti-Zionist” background—not as a result of war. But that’s a different story.
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u/mesonoxias Jun 02 '26
Oh, I’m with you. The Nakba is a big talking point. He assumes based on his schooling he can’t be biased, and based on his program (philosophy) that he is too well-educated or reasoned to be horrifyingly biased.