What if Palestinians win?
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The real inter-fusion began in the modern era between the two nations – the Arab, represented by the Palestinians, and the Jews, represented by those who migrated to Palestine from advanced civilized countries, and it started with the beginning of the 20th century.
After more than hundred years, we find that we have not learned anything from them. Their democracy was unable to invade our minds and also their interest in science, and the generosity of spending on universities and scientific colleges and weapons research laboratories.
For 80 years, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and the most powerful, most advanced, military and nuclear, scientific and cultural. Israel can ask for the aid it wants from all countries of the world. As for the Arab supporters of Palestine, the majority of them believe that they have given it more than what is required and that most of what they have given has not reached the truly deserving.
The injustice meted out by the Jews, verbal and physical abuse, prejudice, racial discrimination and bad treatment of minorities in addition to their brutality in dealing with the Palestinians seem understandable to a large extent in comparison to our history of torture of Palestinians and other citizens in Arab prisons and this is not a justification for the actions of Israel but rather a call to at least adhere to a minimum of humanity, at least with their citizens.
The number of Palestinian-Israeli Arabs living in Israel is two million, out of the 9.5 million but their language is recognized and they have representatives in the Knesset and the vice president has affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The rights enjoyed by minorities in Israel cannot be compared to the rights enjoyed by any minority in any Arab-Islamic country, and yet we have not learned this virtue from them.
In 1948, with the declaration of the establishment of Israel, the number of Palestinian refugees in the Diaspora was estimated at less than a million and today the number has increased five-fold, all of them spread over in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
The question is: What if all of Palestine returned to the Palestinian Arabs, or if it became for them their state?
Will they be united, or will they, as usual, remain dispersed? Will Palestine be a democratic, pluralistic, secular state, or for people of one sect and religion? Will it become industrial, or will it become like the rest of its sister countries, relying on the saying that others are ‘devoted’ to our service? Will order prevail, justice will be given to all without reservation, recognize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Will it ever choose a Christian president?
Our constant logic and our aversion to entering into the minutiae of matters will say: My brother, just return Palestine to me and then we will talk about such matters.
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By Ahmad alsarraf
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