In my opinion, these word games are getting us nowhere. The fact of the matter is, the area today know as Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza is as diverse as anywhere else in the world, with Jews and Arabs alike, each who have strong roots in the region for hundreds of years, each who have meaningful religious sites in the area, each who have a strong attachment to the territory. Israel will forever exist, as it should at this point despite what I feel was a mismanaged establishment of the country in the first place by the British. However, whether you want to call the people in the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians or Pumpkins, they deserve a state, and if they want to call it Palestine, so be it, and Jews can live in Palestine or Arabs can live in Israel and we can all live happily ever after. DEFINITELY not this simple, obviously, but I really wish it could be.
nice sambino-------when I was a little kid-----and searched the skies for the FIRST
STAR each evening----so I could WISH------"starlight, starbright, first star I see
tonight----I wish I may----I wish I might----Have the wish I wish tonite"
My wish was "ALL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD SHOULD LIVE WELL AND HAPPILY"
see?------I was just as dim as are you----it didn't help
You know, except the palistinians.
I was a child a LONG TIME ago------the only "palestinians" back then
were -------jews who had lived in the british palestine mandate-----before 1948.
My husband's papers are stamped "palestinian" -----the papers of arab muslims
who lived in the same area were stamped either "syrian" or "arab" -----not
'palestinian" because at that time the ONLY people called "palestinians"
were jews. --------in fact if they lived in the British palestine mandate----it did
not matter WHERE they were born------hubby got there at age one----as soon as he
set ---tiny foot-----over there----he was a PALESTINIAN------as were his parents.
His place of birth was not mentioned. sorry----but that is history
arab muslims became "palestinians" in the 1960s I was wishing on the first
star BEFORE arab muslim palestinians existed. My wish included ALL PEOPLE
of all the world------especially the starving kids in china who would have been
DELIGHTED with the supper I refused to eat. There is more----as a kid I thought
the word "palestine" was a hebrew word since the only people who seemed to use
it WERE JEWS. There were all kinds of organizations in the USA that had the word
PALESTINE in their titles---------next to the hebrew names for the things-----in hebrew
letters SHEEEEESH you are dim