They say ”Naqba” I say ”of their own doing”.
The celebration of the anti-Israel ”Naqba” meme is soon upon us, and in the Leftist rag, Slate, a grandson pens a piece meant to besmirch/smear the Jewish state, but unwittingly proves the point that most Arabs left in spite of being asked to stay put. Israeli, Yisrael Medad, however takes note of another salient point:
If his mother tried to dress this way today in Hebron, Shchem or Gaza, she’d be dead. Or have to run away. //t.co/wZqaUnkSth
— ymedad (@ymedad) May 15, 2015
Here is another one:
“That night our Jewish neighbors told us not to leave,” my grandmother remembers. “And my father wanted to stay, to wait it out. But my mother … well she had 11 children, and of course she wanted us to be safe. And her sisters were leaving because of the attacks in their neighborhoods.”
Courtesy of Saleem Haddad
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Every time my grandmother recounts her experience, a new memory emerges, and I add it to the story, embellishing it with new details and anecdotes. But as her memories made their way onto the page, I had a moment of self-doubt: In my grandmother’s recollection, she was clear that her family had made a decision to leave. Might this play into one of the myths used to justify the establishment of modern-day Israel on Palestinian land—the myth that, despite overwhelming historical evidence to the contrary, Palestinians left on their own free will?
“Are you sure you left voluntarily?” I ask my grandmother. “There was a war,” she replies.
“But no one kicked you out, yes? No one was directly attacking you?” I continue.
“Not us personally, but my mother was worried by the reports. We thought we would be gone for a few weeks at most.”
