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Comment that I left on CIF story written by UK immigrant, in which he rather annoyingly refers to Palestinians who weren't ethnically cleansed from their homes in 1948 Palestine as "Israeli Arabs," and in which he concludes, with audacity and condescension typical of clueless racist immigrants in sheep's clothing: "And the picture any passing Israeli saw in Akko was one of a group of Israeli citizens flying the flag of Israel's opponents, screaming slogans in Arabic and in doing so playing up to the stereotype used by racist politicians like Avigdor Liebermann who (falsely) portrays Israeli Arabs as the 'enemy within.' Unfortunate though it is, when tensions are as high as they are at the moment, keeping out of the melee might actually be to the benefit of the Israeli Arabs, rather than giving their enemies more rope with which to hang them."

My comment:

An overwhelming majority of Palestinians throughout the world consider the sixtieth anniversary of the imposition of Zionism on Palestine not as something with which to reconcile; from an Open Letter to the Beatles: "Beatles, don't let it be! Palestinian Dispossession and Israeli Apartheid are no Cause for Celebration":

"There is no reason to celebrate! Israel at 60 is a state that is still denying Palestinian refugees their UN-sanctioned rights, simply because they are 'non-Jews.' It is still illegally occupying Palestinian and other Arab lands, in violation of numerous UN resolutions. It is still persistently and grossly breaching international law and infringing fundamental human rights with impunity afforded to it through munificent US and European economic, diplomatic and political support. It is still treating its own Palestinian citizens with institutionalized discrimination."
http://www.pacbi.org/boycott_news_more.php?id=655_0_1_0_C

Dr. George Habash, one of 750,000 refugees from 1947-48:

"... Jewish fighters stormed the house, screaming "Out! Out! Get out!" My mother and my sister's children - including a small child we had to carry - ran out, as did other relatives and neighbours. We had no idea where to go, but the Jewish soldiers ordered us to get moving. So we walked. It was a hot day in Ramadan. Some people around us were saying it was the Day of Judgement, others that we were already in Hell. When we reached the outskirts of town, we found a Jewish checkpoint where those leaving were being searched. We had no weapons. But our neighbour's son, Amin Hanhan, apparently had some money concealed on him and wouldn't let them search him. A Zionist soldier shot him dead right in front of our eyes. His mother and sister rushed to him, wailing. His brother, Bishara, had been in elementary school with me and we were friends. We used to study and play together ... You wonder why I have chosen this road, why I became an Arab nationalist. This is what Zionism is about. After all this, they talk about peace. This is the Zionism that I knew, that I saw with my own eyes." George Habash
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/lenin/8108367474201115799/

Habash interview in 1997, published in the Journal of Palestine Studies , (1998) vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 86-101http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0377-919X(199823)28%3A1%3C86%3ATSAIWG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M (

And Palestinian director Hani Abu Assad on so-called "Israeli" Arabs:
"I remind him[journalist to Abu Assad] he may become the first Israeli director to win an Oscar. He, in return, chuckles.

"'Darling,' he says with slight cynicism and contempt, 'I am not Israeli.'"
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