To the editor: I’m an American Jew, and I admire your printing of this text (“My family’s archive shows why Palestinians are owed reparations,” Could 13). Everyone knows that horrible errors have been made again in Could 1948 by the British and the U.N., and that many Palestinians have been unfairly handled. We, as Jews, having suffered atrocities in Europe, ought to know higher.
I’m not in any respect proud of the present administration in Israel and cringe with disgrace as to what they’re doing in Gaza. Alternatively, the Israelis have suffered untold losses as nicely by the hands of Palestinians. The lesson right here, I imagine, is that each side need to acknowledge wrongdoing, and each side want to return collectively and repair it. I understand this can be a pipe dream, however is there every other means out of this morass?
Barbara Busch, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: Visitor contributor Adel Bseiso’s familial story is touching and unhappy. Nonetheless, it’s also incomplete. The Palestinian narration of the Nakba says primarily that the sovereign state of Israel abruptly swept in and displaced lots of of 1000’s of Palestinians, a deliberate act of aggression not not like the Six-Day Conflict in 1967.
What was presupposed to happen in 1948 was a United Nations-mandated partition of each Palestinian and Jewish nations. Nonetheless, a coalition of Arab nations rejected that plan, and would come to lose that gambit and the conflict.
The potential of the Palestinians and Arab nations accepting the U.N. partition is a “what if” of Center Japanese historical past that for some purpose isn’t mentioned. Within the spirit of widening this dialogue, I’d be curious whether or not Bseiso or students might return to his household archives — and decide what quantity of land his household would have retained had the partition plan been accepted.
Ron Shinkman, Northridge
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To the editor: Bseiso’s piece about his Palestinian household was anguishing to learn. The scenario in Gaza is appalling. This could not stand.
Jeri Marston, Los Angeles
