Ponce
21st April 2010, 10:26 AM
Apr
21
09:12
‘LAW OF RETURN’ Vs ‘RIGHT OF RETURN’
Tags: ISRAEL PALESTINE
Today is Israeli Independence Day, which will be celebrated with parades and carnivals around the world. But Israeli “independence†in 1948 meant dispossession, exile, or death for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, for whom the founding of the state of Israel was a personal and collective catastrophe, or Nakba.
As US Jews, we have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “Law of Return,†while many Palestinians have not been able to return home in over 60 years. It is not right that we may “return†to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/law-of-return-vs-right-of-return/
21
09:12
‘LAW OF RETURN’ Vs ‘RIGHT OF RETURN’
Tags: ISRAEL PALESTINE
Today is Israeli Independence Day, which will be celebrated with parades and carnivals around the world. But Israeli “independence†in 1948 meant dispossession, exile, or death for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, for whom the founding of the state of Israel was a personal and collective catastrophe, or Nakba.
As US Jews, we have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “Law of Return,†while many Palestinians have not been able to return home in over 60 years. It is not right that we may “return†to a state that is not ours while Palestinians are excluded and continuously dispossessed.
http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/law-of-return-vs-right-of-return/