To the editor: I’m an American Jew, and I respect your printing of this text (“My household’s archive reveals why Palestinians are owed reparations,” Might 13). Everyone knows that horrible errors have been made again in Might 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 pleased with the present administration in Israel and cringe with disgrace as to what they’re doing in Gaza. Then again, the Israelis have suffered untold losses as effectively by the hands of Palestinians. The lesson right here, I imagine, is that either side need to acknowledge wrongdoing, and either side want to come back collectively and repair it. I understand this can be a pipe dream, however is there another 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. Nevertheless, it is usually incomplete. The Palestinian narration of the Nakba says primarily that the sovereign state of Israel abruptly swept in and displaced a whole bunch of hundreds of Palestinians, a deliberate act of aggression not not like the Six-Day Warfare in 1967.
What was purported to happen in 1948 was a United Nations-mandated partition of each Palestinian and Jewish nations. Nevertheless, a coalition of Arab nations rejected that plan, and would come to lose that gambit and the battle.
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 motive is never 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
