An Iraqi gets it
As three more Israeli soldiers were murdered today at the Nahal Or crossing into Gaza, and Israel once more tried to eradicate the source of the terror by a violent raid (and guess which of these two developments will get all the attention) one unlikely source understands what is actually going on. Unlike so many in the west, this London-based Iraqi author, Aref Alwan has a grasp of history and is honest enough to acknowledge the truth about the unmitigated evil that is dominating the Middle East and the world. In a remarkable article, he identifies the Arab refusal to recognise other people’s rights which has given rise to the ‘enormous lie’ that Palestine was stolen from the Arabs in the ‘nakba’ – ie, the creation of Israel in 1948. Refusing to recognise anyone else’s rights, he says, led to the Arab persecution of Jews, Kurds and Copts and has created the monstrosity of Islamic terrorism
…the Arabs still treat the numerous minorities that came under their dominion 1,400 years ago in accordance with the laws from the era of Arab conquest…The Arabs have amassed false claims regarding their exclusive right to the Palestinian land, [and] these are based on phony arguments and on several axioms taken from written and oral sources - most of which they [themselves] created after the Islamic, and which they forbade anyone, Arab or foreigner, from questioning…
…As a result, they wasted decades stubbornly defending the validity of their documents, which do not correspond to the officially accepted version of the region's history - which is based on concrete and solid evidence [such as] archaeological findings in the land of Palestine, the holy books of the three monotheistic religions, accounts by Roman, Greek, and Jewish historians... and modern historical research...
The Koranic verses cursing the Jews and casting doubt on [the veracity of] their Holy Book [the Torah] promulgated a desire among Arabs to set themselves above the Jews who lived in their midst, humiliating and persecuting them even without pretext. In time, this treatment made large numbers of Jews abandon their cities and their land and emigrate... while those who stayed [in Palestine] until the 19th century remained marginalized, living among the Arabs like criminals in a foreign land...
In order to prevent more bloodshed among the innocent [population]... and in order to keep the deteriorating situation in Lebanon, Iraq, Gaza, and the West Bank from making [these regions into] a quagmire that will spread to engulf all Arab states and societies, the Arabs must reassess the question of the Nakba and come up with a new, courageous vision for the region and for the future of its residents.
[This vision] must involve public recognition of the Jews' legitimate right to their state - which is based on historical fact - instead of [recognition] of the writings filled with anger and demagogy produced and formed into an ideology by the confused [Arab] consciousness - a consciousness built upon lies, myths, and distortions stemming from the principle of non-acceptance of the other.