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Sixty years of Nakba, 60 years of nothing
By Bradley Burston
Tags: Burston, Israel, Palestinians 

In a nation as coiled and embroiled as this, with a language fraught and zip-filed as the bible, it's only fitting that a single daily newspaper headline will often say more than the thousands of words that follow.

So it was, that on the day before Israel was to celebrate its independence, Maariv's banner read, simply, "60 Years of Bereavement."

In a narrow sense, the headline, stark white on a field of black, marked Israel's memorial day for its war dead and its victims of terrorism.

At the same time, the brief headline may have said more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - and about Israelis themselves, and Palestinians as well - than all of this week's floodtide of 60th anniversary punditry put together.

They are filled with dread here, these people, my friends, the Israelis and the Palestinians both. Part of the dread is the realization that, no matter what direction the conflict takes, the result will in no way justify the violent deaths since 1948 of more than 24,000 Israelis and uncounted thousands of Palestinians.

If we look back 10 years, to Israel's 50th Independence Day, we see a time of much greater hope. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with then-leaders Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat, there was a sense on both sides that the peace process was irreversible.

Since then, we've grown up. A decade of collapsed negotiations and inconclusive fighting has left us at a desolate emotional ground zero. First we lost our belief in the power of peace to solve our problems. Then we lost our faith in the power of war to do the same. Israelis and Palestinians both, we are in a state of unaccustomed loss of ideals. Revolution after revolution has betrayed us, divided us, failed us. Marxism, religious fundamentalism, nationalism, nothing has worked.

Now, after 60 years, we are at our proudest when we have nothing to offer. All we have left, we think on both sides, is the little we have left. We can't give in anymore. We can't give up any more. All we have left to offer is nothing.

We have confused manhood, self-worth, true independence, with the doctrine of Just Say No. No to recognition of the other. No to territorial compromise over Jerusalem. No to territorial compromise over the Holy Land. No to discussion of shared sovereignty of sacred shrines. No to compromise, even if only verbal, over return of refugees.

Both sides have their monsters, who see themselves as the keepers of the holy flame, ready to bring down and/or do violence to anyone on their own side who dares to work for peace.

Both sides have their diaspora, with its armchair martyrs and La-Z-Boy commandos, its online ideologue and its Talkback Cato the Elder.

We have done iniquity to one another and felt only victimhood. We do it still. Every single one of us, on both sides, suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Too many of us cause it as well.

We have seen that if the first casualty of war is truth, the second will surely be compassion.

We have seen that humans - or we, at any rate - have an innate need for revenge. We have also seen that vengeance does absolutely no good.

If we look back 60 years, and look closely, we will see that what happened in 1948 was a tragedy, a disaster, a Nakba, for both sides. The Palestinians who lost their homes and their dreams decreed that there would be no peace, no assured future for these newly decreed people, these Israelis, one out of every hundred of whom lost their lives in that war.

Today, we - Palestinian and Israeli both - look into the future, and see nothing. We are blinded by the enormity of our bereavement. We are unable to look into each other's eyes with anything other than pain. Even the extremists among us are beginning to wonder about how their messianic visions have played out. All of us have been betrayed by some one on our own side.

Paradoxically, though, there may be something in all of this that promotes healing. Psychologists tell us that coping skills which enable children to survive horrific childhoods, may turn disastrously self-destructive if carried into adulthood. Perhaps we need to have our habits, comforting illusions, conforting misconceptions about the evil of our enemies, taken from us by force. Or by force of disillusionment.

There may be something healthy in the sense that the past 60 years themselves have betrayed us. Maybe that's how a people weans itself from its illusions. Maybe that's how a people begins to have self-awareness. Maybe that's how a people finally, perhaps just before it's too late, grows up.

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  1.   A Miracle Not Disaster 16:54  |  ERSB 06/05/08
  2.   our naqba occurred in the year 634 CE 18:11  |  bob 06/05/08
  3.   The Occupier and the Occupied 19:52  |  Lars Hansen 06/05/08
  4.   Burston, take a Xanax 20:21  |  dyinglikeflies 06/05/08
  5.   "The Naqba to the Palestinians, is what the Shoah is to the Jews. 20:57  |  Tarek 06/05/08
  6.   What was there in 634 20:58  |  Tarek 06/05/08
  7.   "The Naqba to the Palestinians, is... continued" 21:04  |  Tarek 06/05/08
  8.   Tarek 21:20  |  Elihu 06/05/08
  9.   60 Years of Nothing...WRONG! 21:54  |  Ed 06/05/08
  10.   Distorted values 23:16  |  Realist 06/05/08
  11.   Elihu #8 23:40  |  Adam 06/05/08
  12.   Tarek 23:44  |  Ed 06/05/08
  13.   rubbish Tarek 00:01  |  Gordon Peltz 07/05/08
  14.   Tarek thinks 00:02  |  Ed 07/05/08
  15.   Occupation 00:12  |  Ed 07/05/08
  16.   it`s called the naKba, not the naqba 00:28  |  Tamara 07/05/08
  17.   Tarek - re synagogues under muslim rule 00:40  |  Reuben 07/05/08
  18.   More discussion for Reuben 03:50  |  Tarek USA 07/05/08
  19.   Naqba is Arab terrorist propaganda - Only Olmert believes in it 04:33  |  ROB GOTTESMAN 07/05/08
  20.   Israel is home 05:03  |  Yaron (an Israeli) 07/05/08
  21.   Tarek 06:47  |  John 07/05/08
  22.   Please stop equating the two sides 08:25  |  Josh 07/05/08
  23.   To Tarek -- The Shoah is like the "Naqba" 08:32  |  Josh 07/05/08
  24.   To Lars Hansen 08:44  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  25.   To Lars Hansen (continue) 09:14  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  26.   ISRAEL IS BEING CURSED TO BE AT WAR FOREVER 11:57  |  indrajaya 07/05/08
  27.   Islam is to blame! 11:58  |  Akiva P 07/05/08
  28.   sixty years of triumphs 12:09  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 07/05/08
  29.   Palestinians Have A Point 12:11  |  Yosemite 07/05/08
  30.   to Indrayaya 12:16  |  Harry 07/05/08
  31.   634 jews welcomed muslims as liberators 12:22  |  Manolo 07/05/08
  32.   Nakba mentality 12:27  |  Akiva P 07/05/08
  33.   In Light Of 9/11 And Al-Qaeda... 12:27  |  Yosemite 07/05/08
  34.   Time to say YES 12:37  |  El-Birawi 07/05/08
  35.   Yes, We`re At War Forever. We`ll Win. 12:38  |  dyinglikeflies 07/05/08
  36.   dating the nakbah 12:45  |  Manolo 07/05/08
  37.   Akiva P # 27 12:48  |  Coldstream 07/05/08
  38.   # 35, DYINGLIKEFLIES 12:56  |  indrajaya 07/05/08
  39.   60 years Israel, the land of the "EXTREMES"............. 12:57  |  Swiss (Dino) 07/05/08
  40.   Israel economy 13:02  |  Manolo 07/05/08
  41.   Coldstream@#37 13:18  |  Akiva P 07/05/08
  42.   indrajava: ISRAEL IS CURSED TO BE FOREVER 13:23  |  Boris 07/05/08
  43.   Palestinian ethnic cleansing 13:27  |  Said 07/05/08
  44.   ohhhh the reconciliation blues dum da da de dum 13:52  |  peter 07/05/08
  45.   Adam yes you`re credulous. 14:03  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  46.   Said if any country has no provisional plans for defence 14:08  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  47.   Answering Manolo on Israeli economy 14:13  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  48.   His Word is Life. His Word is Judge. He is the lifter of my head 14:27  |  Blessed be His Name! 07/05/08
  49.   "our existence is in our own hands." Are you sure about that? 14:44  |  Think again 07/05/08
  50.   Margie in Tel Aviv 14:47  |  Said 07/05/08
  51.   Said Daled was an extreme fallback and one of many 15:16  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  52.   Akiva P #41 15:31  |  Coldstream 07/05/08
  53.   60 years of Constructive activity vs 60 destructive 15:32  |  B 07/05/08
  54.   You telling us to lie, Bradley? 15:48  |  Burned Liberal 07/05/08
  55.   From 1948 TO 2008- IT SAYS IT ALL!! 15:56  |  Arthur 07/05/08
  56.   To Said from London 15:58  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  57.   Siamese twins 15:59  |  Michael N 07/05/08
  58.   Bradley`s equating the two sides is way overdone. 16:00  |  S 07/05/08
  59.   What is left, Bradley, is Fatigue 16:01  |  Tzfonit 07/05/08
  60.   Tarek- Building a state 16:09  |  Arthur 07/05/08
  61.   Reconciliation with Israeli Arabs 16:10  |  Tosefta 07/05/08
  62.   A Brave Voice that is gonna get a lot of heat here 16:18  |  just a jew 07/05/08
  63.   #5 Tarak. Your land from generations.. 16:20  |  John Allen 07/05/08
  64.   Tarek: You Come To Terms With YOUR Past.... 16:20  |  Tex 07/05/08
  65.   Mr. Burston...great article 16:24  |  Lynn 07/05/08
  66.   Israel chooses peace, Arabs choose war 16:27  |  David 07/05/08
  67.   arabsforisrael.com 16:30  |  Shmuel 07/05/08
  68.   #5, thats disgusting. 650,000 people move vs 6 million killed 16:33  |  David 07/05/08
  69.   Israeli economy can`t aliked EU 16:36  |  Manolo 07/05/08
  70.   EL-BIRAWI- WE ARE going somwhere 16:37  |  Arthur 07/05/08
  71.   Manolo- Madrid 16:41  |  Avraham 07/05/08
  72.   Somebody contact legal, Burston`s been plagarizing Seinfeld 16:55  |  Jacob Blues 07/05/08
  73.   Gripe de jure 16:58  |  Nathaniel 07/05/08
  74.   Manolo - more about Israel`s economy 17:03  |  ChanahS 07/05/08
  75.   The world according to Bradley 17:06  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 07/05/08
  76.   Bradle you say we as a people should ... 17:10  |  Mary 07/05/08
  77.   To my colleague from Amsterdam Nr. 62 17:14  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  78.   Truth about my Arab Cousins in 1948 17:28  |  Ami 07/05/08
  79.   Yigal Allon 17:29  |  Mark Lincoln 07/05/08
  80.   There is nothing but hope 17:29  |  Seth J. Frantzman 07/05/08
  81.   Powerful nation with no soul but hate! 17:48  |  El-Birawi 07/05/08
  82.   Shoshana Thomasson 17:53  |  Said 07/05/08
  83.   to manolito 17:58  |  harry 07/05/08
  84.   #51 Margie in Tel Aviv 18:03  |  Said 07/05/08
  85.   60 years of nothing, 60 years of something 18:13  |  Walter 07/05/08
  86.   bob 2 18:22  |  potobac 07/05/08
  87.   #65 Lynn-yes other States 18:23  |  examiner 07/05/08
  88.   To Manolo from Madrid (2) 18:25  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  89.   Ami # 78 18:27  |  Coldstream 07/05/08
  90.   Said many of those villages are still in existence 18:32  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  91.   Cutie Burston earns money on preaching "bereavement".Speak arabic 18:35  |  Absolute Sweden 07/05/08
  92.   Said how much do you know and how much do you conjecture? 18:43  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  93.   @40 manolo cont 18:45  |  vladimir 07/05/08
  94.   ISRAEL BUILT A VIBRANT SOCIETY, GREAT CULTURE! 18:51  |  Avi Morduchai 07/05/08
  95.   @40, manolo #3 18:53  |  vladimir 07/05/08
  96.   Nacba is not Israeli problem 18:53  |  Stranger 07/05/08
  97.   Said yes there was palestian ethnic cleansing 18:57  |  Miche Norman 07/05/08
  98.   Said 18:57  |  PantherJet 07/05/08
  99.   Nakba day?...why not Wrong day ? 19:13  |  The Dumbite Kid 07/05/08
  100.   60 years of bereavement only 1/2 of the cup 19:16  |  howiej 07/05/08
  101.   #27 Akiva 19:16  |  Boycott 07/05/08
  102.   Psychologists?? 19:16  |  Blogowitz 07/05/08
  103.   @78, said be honest 19:30  |  vladimir 07/05/08
  104.   #45 Margie 19:39  |  Adam 07/05/08
  105.   I AGREE WITH BRADLEY THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE 19:44  |  PalestniansAreA Myth 07/05/08
  106.   To Said from London Nr. 82 19:46  |  Shoshana Thomasson 07/05/08
  107.   Sixty years of life in a vibrant Jewish state G-d Bless Israel 19:49  |  Shalom Freedman 07/05/08
  108.   Unwarranted optimism, however sadly expressed 19:55  |  Clickfool 07/05/08
  109.   For Cipora # 28 19:57  |  Clickfool 07/05/08
  110.   This is the wrong parallel to draw 19:58  |  B 07/05/08
  111.   For Avi Morduchai # 94 20:01  |  Clickfool 07/05/08
  112.   Some more on this topic 20:03  |  B 07/05/08
  113.   To John Allen #63 20:38  |  Tarek USA 07/05/08
  114.   Burston`s a Nakba, Nakba, Nakba man! 20:44  |  The Anti Nakba Squad 07/05/08
  115.   The pride and the glory that is Israel 20:51  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  116.   A great disappointment !!! 21:00  |  Brian 07/05/08
  117.   Further to Walter #85 60 years of what 21:03  |  Tarek USA 07/05/08
  118.   Tosefta- the second wicked son 21:11  |  17 07/05/08
  119.   #26 Indrajaya 21:19  |  Moshe 07/05/08
  120.   Mark Lincoln- yigal allon 21:20  |  Recommendations 07/05/08
  121.   #79 Mark Lincoln a bit off the mark 21:28  |  Michael N 07/05/08
  122.   Lars 21:43  |  Sabra 07/05/08
  123.   El Birawi - #81 hadi yallah show us action 21:48  |  David Isarel 07/05/08
  124.   Clickfools Ideals 21:55  |  Sabra 07/05/08
  125.   Indrajayah 21:58  |  Sabra 07/05/08
  126.   recommendations 22:01  |  sabra 07/05/08
  127.   Tarek, thats wrong 22:10  |  Scharker Yid 07/05/08
  128.   #115 Margie in Tel Aviv 22:16  |  Moshe 07/05/08
  129.   Without peace agreement, ME remains "a cesspool of human misery". 22:17  |  Smadar 07/05/08
  130.   Indrajaya and country curses 22:18  |  Greg 07/05/08
  131.   Margie 22:22  |  BBSNews 07/05/08
  132.   Information in the Twilight Zone (Margie #92) 22:31  |  Tosefta 07/05/08
  133.   #104 Adam 22:33  |  Moshe 07/05/08
  134.   #109, fool, read my posts on Haaretz editorial 22:48  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 07/05/08
  135.   #111 Clickfool 23:07  |  Moshe 07/05/08
  136.   Recommendations 23:16  |  Mark Lincoln 07/05/08
  137.   Rob Gottesman, NY. 23:29  |  Shosha 07/05/08
  138.   The pathological need to reject reality 23:37  |  Mark Lincoln 07/05/08
  139.   Adam 104 23:40  |  Jeremy Woolf 07/05/08
  140.   Yaron 23:40  |  Shosha 07/05/08
  141.   #115 Margie in Tel Aviv 23:42  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 07/05/08
  142.   Said 23:48  |  Jeremy Woolf 07/05/08
  143.   Admired?? A. Morduchai 23:48  |  Fenno-Ugrian 07/05/08
  144.   #111 Clickfool 23:51  |  Moshe 07/05/08
  145.   Sosha in fact it`s doubtful whether we`re in Israel at present 23:59  |  x-ray 07/05/08
  146.   Sosha in fact it`s doubtful whether we`re in Israel at present 23:59  |  x-ray 07/05/08
  147.   The situation made ethnic cleansing necessary 23:59  |  Mark Lincoln 07/05/08
  148.   For Moshe # 135 00:05  |  Clickfool 08/05/08
  149.   Scharker #127 Is it name, race, or religion? 00:09  |  Tarek USA 08/05/08
  150.   NO TO ISRAEL! NO TO THE JEWS! NO TO PEACE! NO TO LIFE! 00:13  |  Mr. Ami Goldman 08/05/08
  151.   Tarek USA two other Nakbas are greater 00:16  |  Walter 08/05/08
  152.   @131 BBSNews, right on! 00:16  |  Sam 08/05/08
  153.   Tzfonit @59 00:22  |  ...G1 08/05/08
  154.   Smadar @129 00:26  |  ...G1 08/05/08
  155.   #138 Mark Lincoln 00:30  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  156.   the Disaster was that we`re not dead 00:33  |  eric l. 08/05/08
  157.   huh? 00:35  |  messy 08/05/08
  158.   from reading EXODUS... 00:38  |  samos 08/05/08
  159.   #111 Clickfool 00:45  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  160.   Michael N 01:12  |  Mark Lincoln 08/05/08
  161.   Burston`s critical observation 01:18  |  Mark Lincoln 08/05/08
  162.   The problem is the "inconclusive fighting". 01:31  |  Chaim 08/05/08
  163.   LONG LIVE ISRAEL 01:40  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 08/05/08
  164.   #135 Nashe 01:57  |  Karl Gottschalk 08/05/08
  165.   Al Saiid v`al Tareq- Ethnic Cleansing 02:02  |  Rustam 08/05/08
  166.   Shosha The Propogandist 02:08  |  Rustam 08/05/08
  167.   111 Clickfool 02:14  |  leo 08/05/08
  168.   TO # 42 indra. 02:33  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 08/05/08
  169.   re 26 This why the Jews need a strong Isreal 03:09  |  Alan the real one 08/05/08
  170.   All of Palestine and Israel belongs to the 03:17  |  kiwi girl 08/05/08
  171.   Bob and "history" 03:22  |  Truth 08/05/08
  172.   Germans Killed 6 Million Jews Yet No Part of Germany is Divided 03:23  |  Tupac 08/05/08
  173.   22 Arab states SO WHAT It was German Gas Champers 03:28  |  Tupac 08/05/08
  174.   Israel, the Nakba and the vulture. 03:30  |  Maureen Ann 08/05/08
  175.   #43:Said; old news the plan was rejected, try reading 03:46  |  Doc Holliday 08/05/08
  176.   Gideon Levy got excited by the headline 03:58  |  Jon 08/05/08
  177.   #113 Tarek. Sorry, my Torah says, 04:05  |  John Allen 08/05/08
  178.   Inquiring of Mr. Ed 04:08  |  hollingsworth 08/05/08
  179.   #5 Tarek, stop with your attempt to 04:38  |  John Allen 08/05/08
  180.   #117 Tarek, I find it neccessary to set you 04:57  |  John Allen 08/05/08
  181.   NAVEL-GAZING NEGATIVISM 05:07  |  Brant 08/05/08
  182.   On last try to pass the censors 05:21  |  Mark Lincoln 08/05/08
  183.   Trying To Convince Us We Are Really Unhappy 05:24  |  dyinglikeflies 08/05/08
  184.   Sixty years 05:31  |  Laine 08/05/08
  185.   Finally 05:47  |  Mark Lincoln 08/05/08
  186.   Mark Lincoln and Johnboy 05:55  |  BBSNews 08/05/08
  187.   CONGRADULATIONS TO ISRAEL!!! 06:01  |  US CITIZEN 08/05/08
  188.   CONGRADULATIONS TO ISRAEL--part two 06:03  |  US CITIZEN 08/05/08
  189.   #132- arabist apologists brays a lie 06:32  |  peter 08/05/08
  190.   BBS News 06:36  |  Mark Lincoln 08/05/08
  191.   #164- what a troika whooaaah 06:38  |  peter 08/05/08
  192.   It`s time for you to leave Israel, Mr. Burston! Good bye! 06:41  |  Israeli 08/05/08
  193.   Mark 06:51  |  BBSNews 08/05/08
  194.   142/143 x-ray 06:58  |  Shosha 08/05/08
  195.   Bob #2, the Arabs never took the land from the Jews 07:00  |  Eyad 08/05/08
  196.   JOHN ALLEN ENLIGHTENMENT FOR YOU 07:04  |  Shosha 08/05/08
  197.   Rustam 07:09  |  Shosha 08/05/08
  198.   to 150 tupac 07:11  |  Mikey 08/05/08
  199.   to hollingsworth 07:15  |  Mikey 08/05/08
  200.   #157 Mark Lincoln 07:16  |  Michael N 08/05/08
  201.   #193 07:37  |  Panther Jet 08/05/08
  202.   This article makes me wanna puke 08:01  |  Abraham Saks 08/05/08
  203.   #200 Michael N 08:05  |  Panther Jet 08/05/08
  204.   #195 Eyad Van Winkle 08:21  |  Panther Jet 08/05/08
  205.   So sorry, Moron Ann, Said et al. 08:55  |  Linichka 08/05/08
  206.   Tosefta shuts his eyes (and ours) to unpleasant truth 09:08  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 08/05/08
  207.   ads on talkback 09:52  |  eric 08/05/08
  208.   #102 10:17  |  Michael 08/05/08
  209.   Brilliant...just brilliant 10:31  |  Richard Silverstein 08/05/08
  210.   Cheer up, Bradley 10:50  |  The Northern Wind 08/05/08
  211.   #204, Margie in TA 11:01  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 08/05/08
  212.   To Mr Burston. The truth 11:13  |  Altalena 08/05/08
  213.   Israel`s entire existence is ... 11:23  |  Joseph 08/05/08
  214.   Avraham: my ancestors came from Cuba 11:27  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  215.   The Arabs have only compounded their own problems 11:28  |  Sherlock Holmes 08/05/08
  216.   #170. All land belong to the original people who... 11:38  |  Zeev 08/05/08
  217.   Spanihs cities proud of jew heritage 11:54  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  218.   Well thought and well said ... 11:58  |  Steve the Pals. 08/05/08
  219.   Zeev # 216 12:05  |  Coldstream 08/05/08
  220.   Zeev # 216 12:09  |  Coldstream 08/05/08
  221.   chanah, I can be chauvinist too 12:21  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  222.   to harry -a polite answer 12:37  |  "Manolito" call me 08/05/08
  223.   To Shoshana 13:06  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  224.   #148 Clickfool 13:15  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  225.   please don`t be racists 13:33  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  226.   #214 Manolo 13:47  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  227.   #170 Kiwi Girl 13:54  |  Rab Burns 08/05/08
  228.   # 87 examinr....putting words in other people`s mouths 14:01  |  Lynn 08/05/08
  229.   Vladimir, visit Spain! you will like 14:06  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  230.   # 211 Cipora J.K Just A few Words 14:08  |  KATHY 08/05/08
  231.   # 163 THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT..LONG LIVE ISRAEL!! 14:22  |  KATHY 08/05/08
  232.   hardly Lynn 14:22  |  examiner 08/05/08
  233.   I recommend you `Oh Jerusalem` 14:25  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  234.   Israel would look like Gaza if Israel didnt get its homeland back 14:35  |  r 08/05/08
  235.   Margie in Tel Aviv-unpleasant truths 14:41  |  ahmed 08/05/08
  236.   Margie in Tel Aviv 14:52  |  ahmed 08/05/08
  237.   Moshe please don`t be unfair 14:57  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  238.   Now many around the world see Israel as a Naqba 15:19  |  Dutch 08/05/08
  239.   To Shosha - about truth 15:25  |  Rustam 08/05/08
  240.   Logic in the Twiilight Zone (Margie in TZ #206) 15:44  |  Tosefta 08/05/08
  241.   Spanishs build up cathedrals, did jews build too? 16:05  |  Manolo 08/05/08
  242.   #237 Manolo 16:16  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  243.   Answering Hollingsworth on cultural, technological etc. 16:33  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 08/05/08
  244.   @229, manolo, i did visit spain several times and i did know some 16:37  |  vladimir 08/05/08
  245.   #177 John Allen 16:45  |  Tarek USA 08/05/08
  246.   Linichka 16:47  |  Said 08/05/08
  247.   r #234 You are exagerating (Israel would look like Gaza...etc) 16:51  |  S 08/05/08
  248.   Manolo: Proving Jew Hatred Makes One Stupid 17:16  |  Tex 08/05/08
  249.   #233 Manolo 17:31  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  250.   60 Years of Naqba 17:38  |  Adrianne 08/05/08
  251.   The usual 17:51  |  Yakov 08/05/08
  252.   Tupac, 173. Roots 17:53  |  Altalena 08/05/08
  253.   to manolo 18:02  |  José Pedro 08/05/08
  254.   to manolo 18:02  |  José Pedro 08/05/08
  255.   #233 Manolo 18:07  |  Moshe 08/05/08
  256.   Zero-sum "game..." 18:24  |  bat yam 08/05/08
  257.   No.195 Eyad from Tamra 18:28  |  Arthur 08/05/08
  258.   No. 214 Manolo 18:38  |  Avraham 08/05/08
  259.   Nakba 18:39  |  Max 08/05/08
  260.   Logic in the Twiilight Zone (Margie in TZ #206) 18:42  |  Tosefta 08/05/08
  261.   Manolo 18:45  |  Avraham 08/05/08
  262.   No. 214 Manolo 18:59  |  Avraham 08/05/08
  263.   all i can say is 19:16  |  sam 08/05/08
  264.   TO 231 K A T H Y. 19:27  |  THE TEACHER/INSTRUCT 08/05/08
  265.   # 5 Tarek, The root cause of the ongoing conflict since 1947 19:30  |  Max Zinger,P.Chimist 08/05/08
  266.   congratulation 19:33  |  Ashish 08/05/08
  267.   THE ATTEMPTED REVISION OF HISTORY AND REALITY 19:34  |  Alan Steiner 08/05/08
  268.   Zero sum "game..." 19:55  |  bat yam 08/05/08
  269.   ah ahmed I think you mean hasbara 20:19  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 08/05/08
  270.   Cipora and all our Israeli readers 20:26  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 08/05/08
  271.   60 years of bereavement, etc 20:27  |  Shimon Cleopas 08/05/08
  272.   No Tarek, you`re getting confused 20:40  |  Scharker Yid 08/05/08
  273.   Israel jails all Palestinian peace activisits 20:44  |  El-Birawi 08/05/08
  274.   Tarek#5-7 - your words show no right for Israelis to exist 20:54  |  William 08/05/08
  275.   Indrajaya#26 - war exists because of Islamic hedgemony 21:01  |  William 08/05/08
  276.   El-Birawi " am a proud memeber of a Jewish peace movement..." 21:05  |  17 08/05/08
  277.   Said#82 - Jews tend to believe threats as real 21:08  |  William 08/05/08
  278.   HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISRAEL! 21:09  |  Honesty is the best 08/05/08
  279.   Tupac#173 - you hit a key point 21:13  |  William 08/05/08
  280.   El Birawi - Now you lost me 21:13  |  David Isarel 08/05/08
  281.   O nation called Israel 21:13  |  roger wallace 08/05/08
  282.   sorry my friend 21:16  |  yonatanmiller 08/05/08
  283.   El-Birawi#271 - you seemed confused - Pal Peace acitvists? 21:18  |  William 08/05/08
  284.   el-birawhi 21:25  |  Linichka 08/05/08
  285.   TO HAARETZ – ONE SIDED BLA BLA BLA OPINION 21:31  |  Readers 08/05/08
  286.   Selective Memory + the usual trash 21:50  |  FOX 08/05/08
  287.   El-Birawi is right about the peace activists 21:51  |  Rustam 08/05/08
  288.   The ignorance is yours, Said 21:53  |  Linichka 08/05/08
  289.   Manolo 22:03  |  ChanahS 08/05/08
  290.   Are you jewish? 22:04  |  Dan 08/05/08
  291.   El-Birawi`s Misguided Attitude 22:05  |  Alan Steiner 08/05/08
  292.   El Birawi - Now you lost me 22:06  |  David Israel 08/05/08
  293.   What is Naqba 22:07  |  ...G1 08/05/08
  294.   What For Naqba 22:08  |  ...G1 08/05/08
  295.   Kathy, and all Israelis, Simcha, Bracha, Shalom 22:14  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 08/05/08
  296.   To FOX and All my Jewish Friends 22:15  |  ...G1 08/05/08
  297.   # 290 Dan - of course he is a Jew - the second son 22:21  |  17 08/05/08
  298.   Alan Steiner - Hey my Bayside neighbor 22:28  |  David Israel 08/05/08
  299.   Answering Hollingsworth on cultural, technological and spiritual 22:46  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 08/05/08
  300.   How many fantasizers does it take.. (re Peter, Margie of TZ) 22:46  |  Tosefta 08/05/08
  301.   #208, Michael... 22:48  |  Blogowitz 08/05/08
  302.   obsession with both sides 23:20  |  Eliyahu Ellman 08/05/08
  303.   Rustam 23:43  |  Shosha 08/05/08
  304.   10 years of nakba and shhhhhhhhhh 23:51  |  peter 08/05/08
  305.   Ethnic Cleansing? did it happen? 23:54  |  David 08/05/08
  306.   ISRAEL YOU ARE A MODEL TO CIVILIZED WORLD 00:05  |  Jews from USA 09/05/08
  307.   #212 Altalene, Re: Mr. Burston, The Truth (Part 2) 00:10  |  Dutch 09/05/08
  308.   Sixty years of Nabka 00:19  |  AB 09/05/08
  309.   Naqba rah, rah, rah 01:23  |  ..G1 09/05/08
  310.   David 297 01:25  |  ChanahS 09/05/08
  311.   Shosha of Haifa @295 01:30  |  ...G1 09/05/08
  312.   #212 Altalene, Re: Mr. Burston, The Truth (Part 1) 01:31  |  Dutch 09/05/08
  313.   That thinking will only cause more death 01:33  |  Dave 09/05/08
  314.   60 years where mere mention of a million Jews expelled by Arabs 01:59  |  PETER SM 09/05/08
  315.   60 yers where progress could have ruled instead of death 02:02  |  PETER SM 09/05/08
  316.   Naqba.Naqba Rah,Rah,Rah 02:03  |  ...G1 09/05/08
  317.   270 Margie in TA 02:12  |  leo 09/05/08
  318.   238 & 299 Dutch 02:19  |  leo 09/05/08
  319.   Panther Jet #204 02:37  |  Eyad 09/05/08
  320.   AB of Rockville, Maryland 02:43  |  ELIAS KHOURY 09/05/08
  321.   shame on you bradley burson 02:55  |  nicole 09/05/08
  322.   #48 Amen!!!!! 03:21  |  Yes, blessed forever 09/05/08
  323.   Dan slander is no answer to pointed criticism 03:28  |  Truth 09/05/08
  324.   Seventy Nine Percent 03:31  |  Mark Lincoln 09/05/08
  325.   Whiners and Crybabies 04:02  |  Ronald Ginson 09/05/08
  326.   #227 Rab Burns. Your ancestors from Hebron... 04:14  |  Maureen Ann 09/05/08
  327.   #196 Shosha, (the pal in Israel.) 04:23  |  John Allen 09/05/08
  328.   #220 Coldstream 04:43  |  Zeev 09/05/08
  329.   #315 Leo try this 5 myths about being "pro-Israeli " 05:12  |  Dutch 09/05/08
  330.   Hollow, cheap moral equation. 06:58  |  Fortuna Benmayor 09/05/08
  331.   G1 07:25  |  Shosha 09/05/08
  332.   Nakba 08:13  |  Paolo 09/05/08
  333.   arabist apologist afraid of the olive-branch.org 08:21  |  peter 09/05/08
  334.   Leo and to you all the best 08:32  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 09/05/08
  335.   #326 Dutch and mythology 08:37  |  Hastaroth 09/05/08
  336.   #301 Eliyahu, Arabs rejected every offer? 08:52  |  Palestinian Prince 09/05/08
  337.   #301 Eliyahu, Arabs rejected every offer? part 2 08:55  |  Palestinian Prince 09/05/08
  338.   burston`s "final solution" for mideast peace 09:03  |  eric 09/05/08
  339.   HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISRAEL 09:13  |  Michelle 09/05/08
  340.   #230, Kathy, Bracha, Simcha, Shalom 09:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 09/05/08
  341.   Left zionists 09:56  |  andrew r 09/05/08
  342.   endogamic politic 11:39  |  Ana 09/05/08
  343.   Moshe, better return to secondary school 13:30  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  344.   bored about liars and unfairs 13:40  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  345.   Avraham unfar to spanishs and cubans 14:23  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  346.   spanishs deal muslims centuries ago 14:34  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  347.   Avraham would be jailed in Spain 14:50  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  348.   Chanah the strange something 15:10  |  Manolo 09/05/08
  349.   Al Naqba, my favourite day of the year! 15:27  |  FOX 09/05/08
  350.   Tarek USA 18:34  |  Ed/Goldstein 09/05/08
  351.   to Ed/Glodstein #350 00:38  |  Tarek USA 10/05/08
  352.   Mark Lincoln#182 00:41  |  Danite 10/05/08
  353.   Tosefta 00:44  |  danite 10/05/08
  354.   mark Lincoln#185 00:49  |  Danite 10/05/08
  355.   eric #338 Emphasis on BOTH! 02:29  |  Tim R 10/05/08