Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism Is Finally Pushing Jews to the Right
The problem we have is that prior to 1948 we, along with most Palestinians, had land and title in Palestine, not Jordan. My family still possesses a title to a house (my grandfather’s)in Haifa that became null and void after ’48. Imagine for a minute if a group came in to your state (or country) and declared it a separate country. What would happen to your rights to your property? How would you feel? Would you fight for it? Would you flee? Well most with any sort of money, (including my family) fled to Lebanon. Some went to Jordan and other parts of the Arab world. Unfortunately, the rest of the world is not a good melting pot. America and most of the west is the exception to this rule because of our economic system. I can tell you from experience of being there that Jordan is not a good alternative for a Palestinian state in the same way that Europe would not be a proper place for a new Israel. Israel will remain where it is as will the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The roots are too deep and, as such, the 2 cultures must be allowed made to melt into one. For God’s sake, we eat the same food ! If you really think about it, the people there are more genetically related too each other then they think. Can you imagine killing someone you are related too? My ultimate dream is for a merger, a unification. Call it UPI (United Palestine-Israel) or whatever. Germany went through it after the economic conditions favored it. Do you remember how toxic the relations were between West and East Germany prior too 1989? What can’t this happen?
