In the present context, Mr Pooh:
The leader of Hamas said Monday that his Palestinian militant group would offer Israel a 10-year truce as implicit proof of recognition of Israel if it withdrew from all lands it seized in 1967. [ NBC News April 21, 2008 ]
In the context of the United Nation’s Organisation’s overarching duty and task, Mr Pooh:
The west was taken in by the Zionist propaganda for several decades, but what is more natural than a Palestinian returning home?
Why should I, a Jew from north London, be permitted to take up Israeli citizenship, when that right is denied to a Palestinian who languishes in a refugee camp in Lebanon? Especially when I acknowledge that a large majority of those that left in 1948 were ethnically cleansed by Israeli forces.
Those are the words of Alex Stein, writing for Comment is free last week. A commendable admission of injustice to Palestinians, you would say. But then he derives conclusions that are contrary to this premise; that the right of a Palestinian to return to his home is neither sacred, legal nor possible.
This split-personality theme has been infamously adopted by Benny Morris who pored over hundreds of declassified Israeli files. Morris confirmed in minute detail that, in 1948, Israeli invasion forces committed massacres, expelled Palestinians, destroyed their villages, looted their property, burnt their crops, poisoned their wells and shot on the spot any Palestinian who tried to return to his home. Referring to the remaining minority, Morris then solemnly declared that he was sorry that Ben Gurion “did not finish the job”.
[ Attribution: Salman Abu-Sitta 29 Mar 2007 Guardian Media ]