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The Right of Return of the Jewish People
By Bradley Burston

To my Palestinian friends, on the anniversary of the Nakba of the Jews:

Let us take this opportunity to talk about the Right of Return. Yours and also ours.

It is only fitting that it was this week - the week of the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av, the anniversary of the expulsions of Jews from the Holy Land into exile - that Israel's Education Ministry announced that it had approved a controversial textbook for Israeli Arab third-graders. The book teaches that some Palestinian Arabs were driven from their homes and became refugees in 1948, and that some Arab villages in the new state of Israel were destroyed during and after the war.

There are many among us Jews who think it obscene, masochistic, defeatist, that on this anniversary of a succession of calamities that befell the Jews, the textbook also notes that Arabs use the word Nakba, or catastrophe, to describe the 1948 war.

They should think again.

It is only right and just that the Jews begin to acknowledge the pain and the dismemberment and the loss which Palestinians feel over the war that gave birth to Israel and in the course of which thousands and thousands of Palestinians lost their homes, some because they fled, hoping soon to return, others because they were forced from them.

Just as we should begin to expect that you, the Palestinians, begin to acknowledge the open wounds of the Jews.

There is no topic which causes our peoples more discomfort. The wounds run so deep, that we tend to see only our own pain, our own people's catastrophe.

When Jews listen to Palestinians describe their loss of home and loss of lives, we too often roll our eyes and dismiss their grief as exaggerated, predicated on myth, tailored to political motives, false.

Our Palestinian friends, meanwhile, have grown inured, even contemptuous of, our agony over the Holocaust and our mourning of the victims of terrorism and war.

It is time, on this, our Nakba Day, to ask you to think again as well.

Three generations after your Nakba, you hold out hope that the rusting keys you treasure will someday hang again in the homes you keep in your hearts.

It may not be reasonable, but it is necessary, to accept that 130 generations after our Nakba at the hands of Babylon, and 100 generations after our Nakba at the hands of Rome, we still hold a key of our own.

Those of you who cannot bring yourselves to acknowledge the pain of the Jews, those of you who console yourselves by deciding that today's Jews are not the descendants of ancient Israel, those of you who take comfort in rejecting the notion that Jews have valid claims to this land, should know this:

This is our home. Exactly as it is yours. Your Noble Sanctuary is our Har-Habayit, the Mountain of our Home, the very center of Judaism for 3,000 years. It is that very compound that is our home, not that vestige below it, that souvenir, that Wailing Wall, that mere retaining buttress, that you watch us visit as you stand above us.

Our home is that home, and you are occupying it. You are occupying the most sacred ground we have.

Secular, religious, exiled to six continents, we have carried the rusted key to that Home wherever we have gone. If you can't see it, it's because we carry it in our bones, our memory, our hearts, the darkness in our souls.

Belittle this at your peril. Deny this to your detriment. This is what you need to know about the Right of Return, ours as well as yours, and about holy men, ours as well as yours:

There is no knowable justice in this world. Not for you, and not for us. Keep the right of return where it belongs. It is a part of you. But it is not a part of this world.

Our right of return is no more realizable than yours. It is a right to nothing more than memory. Our right of return is the legacy of a Home which no longer exists in a kindom which no longer exists, yours the legacy of a home which no longer exists in a village which no longer exists.

This one God of ours does not offer the Jews and the Palestinians justice. This one God of offers our two peoples life, if we choose to find a way to swallow our right to return to all that was once ours, and act, for once, as adults.


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  2.   The Right of Return 15:42  |  Hedi Kossow 24/07/07
  3.   Bull`s eye - Terrifying 15:43  |  Bo 24/07/07
  4.   In A Nutshell: What is ours is ours. What is yours is ours 15:49  |  Natallie Durson 24/07/07
  5.   Ownership, Pride, and The Temple Mount 15:54  |  Reluctant Hawk 24/07/07
  6.   Huge Difference 16:02  |  Ron 24/07/07
  7.   Shame on Muslims- Indraya 16:13  |  JewishHeart 24/07/07
  8.   Shame on Muslims- Indraya 16:13  |  JewishHeart 24/07/07
  9.   A question for the Muslims here- indraya, etc. 16:14  |  JewishHeart 24/07/07
  10.   Natalie Misses the Point 16:17  |  Matthew 24/07/07
  11.   Who are the Palestinians? 16:18  |  Klas 24/07/07
  12.   Because your history isn`t correct 16:18  |  Micha 24/07/07
  13.   Inheritance Rights 16:19  |  Descendant 24/07/07
  14.   You treat us just as the white apartheidists treated.. 16:20  |  Micha 24/07/07
  15.   Right to return 16:22  |  Natan 24/07/07
  16.   Indrajaya 16:22  |  All Is Not Well 24/07/07
  17.   RoR to Germany? 16:28  |  Curious 24/07/07
  18.   Best article I have read in Haaretz so far 16:30  |  ScotGuy 24/07/07
  19.   Read the Posts of the Mean-Spirited Souls and Know Who They Are 16:31  |  Melliflous 24/07/07
  20.   Brad, brilliant piece of work! 16:31  |  Joel Weltman 24/07/07
  21.   Facts vs Fairytales 16:35  |  Sallahudin the Great 24/07/07
  22.   infinitely corrupt analogy 16:36  |  Khalid 24/07/07
  23.   Anti-zionism IS anti-semitism 16:47  |  ScotGuy 24/07/07
  24.   Find a better s(h)piel, Bradley 16:50  |  Tosefta 24/07/07
  25.   In a nutshell, Durson you have it wrong... 16:53  |  Joel Weltman 24/07/07
  26.   nathallie continues to despotricate 16:53  |  utagawa 24/07/07
  27.   What`s good For The Jews Is Good For The Gander 16:54  |  Dyinglikeflies 24/07/07
  28.   reconciling the dilema 16:56  |  Jacob 24/07/07
  29.   BRAVO!!!! 17:00  |  dan 24/07/07
  30.   Brilliant, yet a little flawed! 17:14  |  An Arab Neighbor 24/07/07
  31.   Natallie Durson - perceptive as usual 17:15  |  Fish 24/07/07
  32.   Nakba 17:17  |  Yitz 24/07/07
  33.   Heidi & right of Return 17:20  |  Courage My Love 24/07/07
  34.   Hedi 17:27  |  Barry 24/07/07
  35.   Hedi Kossow ignorant and racist 17:31  |  Steven 24/07/07
  36.   Collective self-pity ... 17:33  |  Paladino de Logos 24/07/07
  37.   #20 Arab Neigbour - Thank you 17:36  |  ScotGuy 24/07/07
  38.   Equal rights for Diaspora Jews and Nakbha Palestinians 17:38  |  monad68 24/07/07
  39.   To "Courage My Love" 17:39  |  Historian 24/07/07
  40.   #20 A Saalam, Neighbor 17:42  |  Joel Weltman 24/07/07
  41.   Curious (10) you are not curious you are just an anti-semite 17:45  |  Steven 24/07/07
  42.   What`s your`s is mine and what`s mine is your`s?! 17:47  |  thru-other-eyes 24/07/07
  43.   The Right of Return - Irish Style 17:52  |  Lubo 24/07/07
  44.   For once Haareta writes a PRO ISRAEL article 17:56  |  pace306 24/07/07
  45.   Nothing To Worry About Bradley 17:56  |  Yosemite 24/07/07
  46.   The Role Of Memory 18:03  |  Yaakov Sullivan 24/07/07
  47.   so guys... 18:04  |  jake 24/07/07
  48.   Lubo 18:08  |  CML 24/07/07
  49.   Lumberhead Lubo 18:11  |  Joel Weltman 24/07/07
  50.   Tosefta 18:31  |  Connie 24/07/07
  51.   Indrajaya 18:31  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 24/07/07
  52.   Right of Return 18:36  |  Ralph 24/07/07
  53.   Barry and Yitz 18:37  |  Hedi Kossow 24/07/07
  54.   I Don`t Have A Problem With The Nakba 18:37  |  Yosemite 24/07/07
  55.   Text Book 18:40  |  Eliahu 24/07/07
  56.   RIght of Return================ 18:44  |  Thoughtful 24/07/07
  57.   Jewish right of Return = Palestinian Right of Return? 18:55  |  Fair Historian 24/07/07
  58.   Primitive piece to provoke primitives, 18:56  |  17 24/07/07
  59.   thru other eyes 18:58  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 24/07/07
  60.   #2 Bo- hits on the head again with clarity 18:58  |  peter 24/07/07
  61.   Indrajaya: And Jews from Muslim Lands... 18:59  |  Kevin Minailo 24/07/07
  62.   what about the right of return of.... 19:06  |  ravi 24/07/07
  63.   I see that the anti-semites are busy 19:09  |  Gee 24/07/07
  64.   Better For All Palestinians To Make Peace Now 19:17  |  Yosemite 24/07/07
  65.   Very Good indeed 19:28  |  Indrajaya 24/07/07
  66.   The right of return 19:41  |  Palestinian 24/07/07
  67.   Natalie Durson the Occupier 19:42  |  Moshe 24/07/07
  68.   #4 Natalie 19:58  |  Reuben Jacobs 24/07/07
  69.   GREAT ARTICLE UNTIL THE PARALLEL BETWEEN SHOAH AND NAKBA 19:58  |  don 24/07/07
  70.   Rosner - Yosher Koach! 20:07  |  Bruriah Sarah 24/07/07
  71.   Right of Return 20:17  |  Danite 24/07/07
  72.   Bradley, COME OFF IT.... 20:20  |  Dutch 24/07/07
  73.   #6 Descendant 20:27  |  Bo 24/07/07
  74.   "This is our home. Exactly as it is yours." 20:29  |  The Other Alan 24/07/07
  75.   natalie durson 20:30  |  citizen zero 24/07/07
  76.   Return? 20:38  |  P. J. Casey 24/07/07
  77.   #14 ScotGuy - Anti-Zionism is Racism 20:39  |  Bo 24/07/07
  78.   Bradley-Spoken almost like a Kahanist 20:40  |  Choni Davidowitz 24/07/07
  79.   This article is the most beautifull 20:43  |  Edith 24/07/07
  80.   Flawed logic 20:43  |  Jason Smith 24/07/07
  81.   Conflating rabbinic spiritual home and zionism! 20:47  |  John 24/07/07
  82.   Dutch #33 20:47  |  Think Twice 24/07/07
  83.   # 15 Tosefta - Exactly 20:54  |  Bo 24/07/07
  84.   Real return for Jews, "spiritual" return for Palestinians--nice! 20:58  |  John 24/07/07
  85.   #18 Dyinglikeflies - Just one comment ... 20:59  |  Bo 24/07/07
  86.   Jewish right of return is legal, moral and completly doable 21:05  |  Chaim 24/07/07
  87.   #20 An Arab Neighbor - Outrageous comparison 21:09  |  Bo 24/07/07
  88.   No Israel in Pali schoolbooks. Pali TV encourages child martyrs.. 21:10  |  Nannette 24/07/07
  89.   #39 Choni "who says good & evil cannot coexist?" 21:12  |  Ari ben Yisrael 24/07/07
  90.   Jason 21:12  |  Connie 24/07/07
  91.   John 21:14  |  Connie 24/07/07
  92.   # 33 Dutch - Palestinians are Arabs 21:19  |  Bo 24/07/07
  93.   Thank you, Bradley! 21:33  |  Webster 24/07/07
  94.   Right of Return - Cash Offer 21:37  |  Moshe 24/07/07
  95.   Indra jaya 21:40  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 24/07/07
  96.   #38 Bo - Anti-Zionism is racism 21:42  |  ScotGuy 24/07/07
  97.   Anti-Zionism 21:55  |  RonMossad 24/07/07
  98.   #Jason Smith - Ignorance 21:55  |  ScotGuy 24/07/07
  99.   #1 and #2, show why there will not be peace. 21:56  |  David 24/07/07
  100.   #33, Dutch, Arabs have NOT been there very long 21:58  |  David 24/07/07
  101.   Is #2 "Hedi" for real? 22:08  |  Its genetics, stupid 24/07/07
  102.   Palestinians call themselves refugees of a place they never saw 22:09  |  Efox 24/07/07
  103.   #14 ScotGuy 22:12  |  Boycott 24/07/07
  104.   #46, Jason, Mufti of Jerusalem was a Nazi 22:16  |  David 24/07/07
  105.   #64 Say Ben 22:29  |  ballistic 24/07/07
  106.   IDIOT LEFT WINGERS 22:31  |  zionist forever 24/07/07
  107.   double destruction day 22:39  |  jlynch 24/07/07
  108.   #49 & 59 There is no Jewish right of return 22:39  |  Dutch 24/07/07
  109.   #2 Hedi 22:49  |  Avi Yerushalmi 24/07/07
  110.   to webster 22:55  |  citizen zero 24/07/07
  111.   Boycott 23:04  |  ScoyGuy 24/07/07
  112.   #5 Reluctant Hawk 23:07  |  Bandar Michaels 24/07/07
  113.   The Holy Bible and The Testaments 23:07  |  Natasha 24/07/07
  114.   #67 KNICKER HAS TAKEN THE DNA OF 8 MILLION JEWS 23:13  |  paul harris 24/07/07
  115.   "61" Moshe re ROR 23:22  |  Labhras 24/07/07
  116.   Dutch #71 23:25  |  Avi Yerushalmi 24/07/07
  117.   #39 23:27  |  Moshe 24/07/07
  118.   Boycott and Dutch ignore facts to help their claim 23:28  |  SHIMON 24/07/07
  119.   Dutch, why are u against jews having a home? 23:29  |  SHIMON 24/07/07
  120.   #71 23:30  |  Zionist forever 24/07/07
  121.   Dutch 23:31  |  Think Twice 24/07/07
  122.   #68 Mufti inter alia 23:34  |  Omnes Peccattores 24/07/07
  123.   scotguy 14 23:38  |  accuracy 24/07/07
  124.   #68 23:44  |  Moshe 24/07/07
  125.   # 63 - Amen to that, ScotGuy. 23:56  |  Bo 24/07/07
  126.   # 72 Dutch - Every child 00:06  |  Bo 25/07/07
  127.   Drek 00:11  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  128.   It strikes me 00:18  |  Victor 25/07/07
  129.   # 1 Inda, if it so ridiculous, why bother... 00:18  |  Misha 25/07/07
  130.   right of return and limits.... 00:20  |  Tess 25/07/07
  131.   Did I get this right? 00:25  |  Wiktor 25/07/07
  132.   Vicious Cycle 00:25  |  Dhimmi Hendrix 25/07/07
  133.   # 4 NO, Fatma, your frazing is upside down... 00:29  |  Misha 25/07/07
  134.   #66 Say David---where are getting this stuff? 00:29  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  135.   #72 Hey Dutch--you hit a bulls eye there!! 00:30  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  136.   #59 Say Bo 00:34  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  137.   Ballistic USE WORDS YOU MEAN 00:54  |  TOBIA 25/07/07
  138.   Dutch`s cyberbully pulpit 00:57  |  CML 25/07/07
  139.   # 72 Muhamed, we live by our book.... 01:11  |  Misha 25/07/07
  140.   What Dutch said 01:14  |  Kol ha-Nevi`im 25/07/07
  141.   A very human article 01:16  |  Seth 25/07/07
  142.   Very Sentimental 01:33  |  Eli 25/07/07
  143.   What Hannah and Wiktor said 01:35  |  Kol ha-Nevi`im 25/07/07
  144.   scotsguy 71 01:35  |  accuracy 25/07/07
  145.   leave God`s land alone 01:36  |  maria 25/07/07
  146.   Hannah, Ballistic, et al 01:37  |  CML 25/07/07
  147.   Accuracy???? 01:43  |  CML 25/07/07
  148.   Kissing rusty keys 01:43  |  Ibrahim Shvonce 25/07/07
  149.   False Hannah Alert #127 01:44  |  Bill 25/07/07
  150.   Israel 01:50  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  151.   #50 Connie trying to con the Mufti 01:53  |  Tosefta 25/07/07
  152.   Israel may not last forever... 01:57  |  Syrian 25/07/07
  153.   Labhras rubbernecking - 115 02:00  |  peter 25/07/07
  154.   #98 ScotGuy 02:02  |  Boycott 25/07/07
  155.   #6 descendant about inheritance rights... 02:03  |  maria 25/07/07
  156.   I don`t get it 02:06  |  Joe 25/07/07
  157.   #118 Shimon 02:08  |  Boycott 25/07/07
  158.   Maria, while you`re consulting the `His Word`, 02:08  |  Kol ha-Nevi`im 25/07/07
  159.   # No, do not put this on mohamed.... 02:10  |  Misha 25/07/07
  160.   Palestinian Hoax 02:10  |  Reality Check 25/07/07
  161.   #111 ScotGuy 02:12  |  Boycott 25/07/07
  162.   Well Ofcourse Natallie Wants Us To Die 02:20  |  Yosemite 25/07/07
  163.   #71 Accuracy 02:24  |  ScotGuy 25/07/07
  164.   `67" Moshe 02:24  |  Labhras 25/07/07
  165.   "94` Moshe 02:29  |  Labhras 25/07/07
  166.   Right of Return 02:52  |  OJB 25/07/07
  167.   Curiously Dumb??? 03:08  |  Larry 25/07/07
  168.   Fair Historian #57, forgetting certain issues 03:10  |  Irish Sensation 25/07/07
  169.   Curiously Dumb??? Part 2 03:11  |  Larry 25/07/07
  170.   Disengagement Law versus RoR of the Jewish People , 03:12  |  Joseph E . Post 1 25/07/07
  171.   Disengagement Law versus RoR of the Jewish People , 03:15  |  Joseph E . post 2 25/07/07
  172.   Labhras of Ireland 03:16  |  Larry 25/07/07
  173.   scotsguy 163 03:18  |  accuracy 25/07/07
  174.   # 165 Even if so , nothing wrong was done... 03:31  |  Misha 25/07/07
  175.   So what happened to the Israelites that converted 03:36  |  John 25/07/07
  176.   Flawed logic part 2 03:39  |  Jason Smith 25/07/07
  177.   To Mr.B.Burston... 03:40  |  KATH` 25/07/07
  178.   Irish Sensation #168 03:48  |  On Forgetfulness 25/07/07
  179.   #110, citizen zero 03:58  |  Webster 25/07/07
  180.   # 175 And what brings this idiot to this site..., 03:59  |  Misha 25/07/07
  181.   indrajaya - Because there are none 04:03  |  Dr David I. Gross 25/07/07
  182.   Micha #12 04:04  |  JJ 25/07/07
  183.   right of return 04:04  |  kevin 25/07/07
  184.   #178, continuing on forgetting 04:25  |  Irish Sensation 25/07/07
  185.   Right of Return 04:29  |  Sojourner 25/07/07
  186.   # 183 You can`t change history, and you have.. 04:37  |  Misha 25/07/07
  187.   `172" Larry 04:44  |  Labhras 25/07/07
  188.   Palestinians 04:45  |  Yaacov 25/07/07
  189.   Shimon, I am not against Jews having a state per se 04:47  |  Dutch 25/07/07
  190.   Bradley Burston 05:10  |  Carey Jaffee 25/07/07
  191.   #168 05:13  |  Moshe 25/07/07
  192.   Pseudo-equality 05:16  |  Mohan 25/07/07
  193.   #168 05:18  |  Moshe 25/07/07
  194.   FALSE HANNAH ALERT! #150 05:24  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  195.   Dutch And Her Per Se 05:26  |  Yosemite 25/07/07
  196.   #151 Tosefta & the mufti 05:33  |  Connie 25/07/07
  197.   #154 boycott 05:49  |  Rab Burns 25/07/07
  198.   citizen zero 05:54  |  Connie 25/07/07
  199.   Well known pictures; just no holocaust (Connie #196) 05:54  |  Tosefta 25/07/07
  200.   #191 Moshe 06:08  |  jake 25/07/07
  201.   To Jason Smith on dignity 06:20  |  Connie 25/07/07
  202.   #143, Kol ha-Nevi`im 06:36  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  203.   Tosefta 06:39  |  Connie 25/07/07
  204.   there`s one problem with this article, burston 06:40  |  eric 25/07/07
  205.   The "Right" of return 06:55  |  Mark Lincoln 25/07/07
  206.   False Hannah Alert #194, #202 06:56  |  Bill 25/07/07
  207.   #137 Tobia 07:03  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  208.   My considerations (Connie #196, 203) 07:12  |  Tosefta 25/07/07
  209.   #156 Say Joe; good post! 07:25  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  210.   Boycott 07:42  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 25/07/07
  211.   Kevin 07:51  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  212.   #204 Eric, good post. 07:58  |  ballistic 25/07/07
  213.   #26 utagwa 08:04  |  hala 25/07/07
  214.   #57 Fair Historian 08:10  |  hala 25/07/07
  215.   #127 Drek & her Nakba 08:16  |  Ari ben Yisrael 25/07/07
  216.   #100 The Arabs have not been there for very long? 08:18  |  hala 25/07/07
  217.   A Prophet speaks..... 08:20  |  Dove 25/07/07
  218.   The Humor of Brad Burston! 08:33  |  Paddy 25/07/07
  219.   To Bo from Sweden #87 08:36  |  An Arab Neighbor 25/07/07
  220.   Ja`son `smith 08:49  |  Grammarian 25/07/07
  221.   "Rights" 08:51  |  Gordon 25/07/07
  222.   And after having read all those posts.... 08:55  |  Hastaroth 25/07/07
  223.   LETS THE PEOPLE TALK 09:11  |  indrajaya 25/07/07
  224.   Curious # 17 09:24  |  ChanahS 25/07/07
  225.   #218, please share my house in Russia 10:12  |  Child of refugees 25/07/07
  226.   Resolution 181 !!! 10:14  |  Paddy 25/07/07
  227.   Our right of Return to our Land 10:29  |  Moshe Aharonee 25/07/07
  228.   An Arab Neighbour - detail please 10:36  |  Tzvi 25/07/07
  229.   #226 Child of... 10:47  |  Paddy 25/07/07
  230.   Paddy #218 11:06  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  231.   No Jewish right of return 11:08  |  Andrew Watson 25/07/07
  232.   # 225 11:09  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  233.   To Tzvi #228 - A Proposal I 11:38  |  An Arab Neighbor 25/07/07
  234.   Andrew Watson 11:41  |  watcher 25/07/07
  235.   To Tzvi #228 - A Proposal II 11:47  |  An Arab Neighbor 25/07/07
  236.   An Arab Neighbour 11:48  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 25/07/07
  237.   The great decoy 11:53  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  238.   Andrew Watson #231 Please check your history 12:08  |  Tzfonit 25/07/07
  239.   Bradley - the Keys both peoples hold 12:18  |  Tzfonit 25/07/07
  240.   Mr Burston;Nakba is when you don`t know where to turn your face 12:26  |  Akram Zekaria 25/07/07
  241.   Arab neighbour- Palestinians are very choosy 12:45  |  Sam 25/07/07
  242.   return 13:32  |  Mohan 25/07/07
  243.   226-Paddy stumbles upon a truth 13:50  |  peter 25/07/07
  244.   He shall wipe away the tears... 13:53  |  Joseph 25/07/07
  245.   The "Rights" Facade 14:07  |  FOX 25/07/07
  246.   I am still amazed 14:08  |  Hastaroth 25/07/07
  247.   To All Palestinians 14:11  |  Ronnie Wolman 25/07/07
  248.   # 239 Well said Tzfonit 14:11  |  Edith 25/07/07
  249.   TO HEDI KOSSOW 14:38  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  250.   ARE ONLY JEWS NOT ALLOWED TO MIGRATE? 14:40  |  Ian 25/07/07
  251.   TO HISTORIAN 14:43  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  252.   right of rteturn 14:50  |  Hazan Shafer 25/07/07
  253.   TO ANDRE WATSON 14:50  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  254.   Two Narratives, One Reality-Part I 14:52  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  255.   TO PADDY 14:57  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  256.   Two Narratives, One Reality-Part II 14:58  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  257.   the jews 14:59  |  sam i am 25/07/07
  258.   To Hazan 15:01  |  Nicole 25/07/07
  259.   #204 eric and the passage of time becomes hell 15:04  |  victor hardman 25/07/07
  260.   Two Narratives, One Reality-Part III 15:05  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  261.   #223 15:05  |  Moshe 25/07/07
  262.   #254 yaakov on the loose and writes at a loss 15:08  |  victor hardman 25/07/07
  263.   Ronnie Wolman - All the Little Groups and Power to Change 15:10  |  Tzfonit 25/07/07
  264.   194 Hannah, are you the only one with that name and no address? 15:15  |  The Equalizer 25/07/07
  265.   Marge from Tel Aviv... UN 194... 15:18  |  Tess 25/07/07
  266.   #200 15:20  |  Moshe 25/07/07
  267.   one narrative, one piggyback 15:31  |  peter 25/07/07
  268.   GIVE US the land we want for a state-and live in YOURS too 15:54  |  JON FEIGENBAUM 25/07/07
  269.   `258" Nicole 16:21  |  Labhras 25/07/07
  270.   "Yaakovs" flawed narrative 16:43  |  Danite 25/07/07
  271.   # 152 Israel for ever 16:44  |  Nahshon Halevy 25/07/07
  272.   "260" Moshe 16:44  |  Labhras 25/07/07
  273.   Tzfonit Hello 16:49  |  Danite 25/07/07
  274.   Sam i am 16:50  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  275.   Arab neighbour 16:56  |  Danite 25/07/07
  276.   Great article -100% correct - right on the nose! 16:59  |  Evan 25/07/07
  277.   hala 17:00  |  Danite 25/07/07
  278.   # 233 An arab neighbour 17:03  |  Naftoli M 25/07/07
  279.   of Catastrophes 17:10  |  Paladino del Logos 25/07/07
  280.   #130 Tess - Well ... 17:40  |  Bo 25/07/07
  281.   THE Right of Retrun 17:43  |  emad matahin 25/07/07
  282.   Nicole #251 17:57  |  Veritas 25/07/07
  283.   So Mr. Burston wants Palestinians to pay for the sins of others 17:58  |  John 25/07/07
  284.   #219 An Arab Neighbour - It was no misunderstanding 18:07  |  Bo 25/07/07
  285.   Boycott #157 18:11  |  SHIMON 25/07/07
  286.   JEWS MUST GET THE "FIGHT OF RETURN" 18:13  |  me 25/07/07
  287.   Ducth #189...so the UN giving israel to jews means nothing?? 18:13  |  SHIMON 25/07/07
  288.   Yaakov Sullivan...WHAT COMPROMISES ARE U TALKING ABOUT?! 18:24  |  SHIMON 25/07/07
  289.   A unique case... 18:27  |  Michael Greenberg 25/07/07
  290.   Resolving the conflict? The UN as King Solomon or the Talmud 18:33  |  Tosefta the Chelmer 25/07/07
  291.   Take to heart God`s conditions for remaining in the land. 18:36  |  ReadTheWord 25/07/07
  292.   Immoral to drive a parallel between Jews and Palestinians 18:39  |  CM 25/07/07
  293.   #254/256/259 Sully and his bedtime stories 18:40  |  pace306 25/07/07
  294.   # 67 re Natalie 18:40  |  Mansour Moses 25/07/07
  295.   Hazan # 252 19:03  |  ChanahS 25/07/07
  296.   Palestinian Right of Return/Jewish Right of Return 19:24  |  Queer Boy 25/07/07
  297.   JEWS MUST GET THE "FIGHT OF RETURN" 19:31  |  me 25/07/07
  298.   To Mr. Burston 19:40  |  Joe 25/07/07
  299.   Channa # 264 19:40  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  300.   #229 Paddy 19:41  |  Child of refugees 25/07/07
  301.   Makka & Jersulem first. 19:50  |  Akram Zekaria 25/07/07
  302.   To Hazan Shafer #252 19:54  |  Natasha 25/07/07
  303.   Danite and his spewing on skewing #261 19:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  304.   Yaakov Sullivan the Fool at Large 19:57  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  305.   Shimon and the compromises 20:01  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  306.   Tosefta why? 20:04  |  Angelique 25/07/07
  307.   Yaakov Sullivan #296 - Dillusional 20:09  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  308.   Hannah in Need of a Mirror #304 20:17  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  309.   Yaakov Sullivan# 305 - You really are clueless?! 20:18  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  310.   Beautiful article 20:20  |  symphonyofdissent 25/07/07
  311.   Hannah in Need of a Mirror-Part II 20:21  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  312.   Good point, Ronnie 20:21  |  Tulip 25/07/07
  313.   # 22 corrupt response 20:23  |  Yitshak in T A 25/07/07
  314.   Defending the Palestinians (Yaakov Sullivan #254) 20:24  |  Tosefta 25/07/07
  315.   Hannah and her one sided justificastions 20:27  |  NY 25/07/07
  316.   Palestinian right of return Response to #84 20:29  |  symphonyofdissent 25/07/07
  317.   Sullivan #305..."recognition" from arabs isnt compromise if.... 20:33  |  SHIMON 25/07/07
  318.   Mirrors 20:36  |  Inigo Montoya 25/07/07
  319.   Apologies for winning war Arabs started Why? 20:39  |  Rafi 25/07/07
  320.   Losing everything? 20:39  |  Inigo Montoya 25/07/07
  321.   Yaakov Sullivan - read your own writing 20:40  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  322.   "Yaakov" 20:47  |  Danite 25/07/07
  323.   Danite greetings from the real Isarel 20:50  |  Tzfonit 25/07/07
  324.   Hannah "ask "Yaakov" this 20:50  |  Danite 25/07/07
  325.   Y. Sullivan: Question: 20:51  |  Michael Korn 25/07/07
  326.   Hannah drones on with the usual course served up #309 20:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  327.   Hannah 20:59  |  Danite 25/07/07
  328.   To Indrajaya 21:03  |  Czarkazem13 25/07/07
  329.   To Hedi Kossow 21:05  |  Czarkazem13 25/07/07
  330.   Cheap propaganda and deceitful arguments 21:22  |  Michael N 25/07/07
  331.   310# Symphonyofdissent: Reqium-of-the-Mobs. 21:25  |  Akram Zekaria 25/07/07
  332.   Hannah reflects a blindness that allows this to continue #321 21:28  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  333.   Hanite 21:29  |  Dannah 25/07/07
  334.   Ronnie Wolman #263 Re Tzfonit 21:34  |  GABE1 25/07/07
  335.   Yaakov vs Hannah# 307,#309 311 21:36  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  336.   My Alleged Aganda of Hate as per "Danite"#322 21:41  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  337.   FALSE HANNAH ALERT! #211, 299,304,307,309,321,333 22:04  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  338.   Avi Yerushalmi and his lack of clarity #335 22:08  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  339.   What absolute nonsense. 22:08  |  Deborah 25/07/07
  340.   Re #168, #184 Azzedine al-Qassam, Ruby and the Romantics 22:14  |  DJStahl 25/07/07
  341.   Sullivan Proves his Bias #336 22:18  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  342.   FALSE HANNAH ALERT! #337 22:19  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  343.   The big lie continues 22:32  |  peter 25/07/07
  344.   Hannah and Her Biases #341 22:33  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  345.   Sullivan # 344 - Funny 22:44  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  346.   #335 Avi Yerushalmi fantasizes out loud (re Yaakov, Hannah) 22:52  |  Tosefta 25/07/07
  347.   Yaakov,#338 22:54  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  348.   Hannah and more zionist distortion #345 22:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 25/07/07
  349.   Hedi Kossow 23:09  |  Hannah 25/07/07
  350.   "right of return" 23:12  |  tom 25/07/07
  351.   peter of Montreal #343 23:13  |  GABE1 25/07/07
  352.   Yaakov #344 23:13  |  Avi Yerushalmi 25/07/07
  353.   Toseftas hatred on display 23:16  |  Danite 25/07/07
  354.   Tzfonit 23:21  |  danite 25/07/07
  355.   "Yaakov" 23:25  |  Danite