Loolt: Thanks. I really encourage everybody to talk to their parents, grandparents, and relatives about their first hand experiences with the Nakba. This cruelty should be recorded so that their suffering would not be forgotten.

What a dumb person you are. You keep on going back to the 1948 war, so i will take you up on that.

You are saying that the Arabs would have had a state of peace. Have you not been taught about the King David Bombings and the Deir Yasssin Massacre ?! both of which were carried out by the Jewish terrorist group the Irgun, and both happened before the war had started. And it is not only us who have called the Irgun terrorists, but the rest of the world did.

And now, what do you have ? you have a memorial celebrating the terrorist who carried out these operations. So, stop with the terrorism bullshit and check your country’s history to see who really started with the terrorist acts. Who started sending donkeys with bombs to markets to kill Arabs, who terrorized and killed many Arabs before the war started.

You keep on going back to the point that the Arabs refused the 1947 partition plan. Well of course you idiot, they were living in peace with the existing Jewish population, and even some of the early immigrants. The British had promised the Arabs in general states of their own (independent of the Ottoman empire) back before World War 1 and the were yet to fulfill their promises. After the collapse of the Ottoman empire, the Arabs had 100% of the land. Then finally, the 1947 partition plan comes up and gives 56% of the land to the Jewish which were only 33% of the population. Of course they refused it, it seemed unjust then, and it seems unjust now.

Mr. Mafish, i suggest you stop arguing about the 1948 events. Because all evidence shows that the Irgun, Hagana, and the Stern gangs were the ones responsible for most of the terrorist acts back them.

Also Mr. Mafish, let’s skip forward a bit, what happened after 1948. Let’s say between 1948 and 1967. If Israel’s intentions were as innocent as you said, then why didn’t they implement the UN General Assembly’s Resolution 194 ?! They could have shown their clear intentions by abiding by international law and allowing those refugees to return. But they didn’t.

Skip forward, in 1967 after the six day war, Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza. Yes that was the result of a war (that Israel started with their preemptive attack on Egypt in operation “Moked”). But what happened in the 20 years after that ?! Israel still did not implement the UN resolutions calling for its withdrawal from the occupied territories (until today), and they started building settlements on these occupied territories which are totally against international law.

What the Palestinians are trying to negotiate for now is just the implementation of these international laws, and control over the West Bank and Gaza. And i do mean full control, not that bullshit you did in Gaza were you take away settlements, but blockade everything else. We just want our sovereignty.

Now you are sitting nestled in Tel-Aviv or wherever you are, and just spewing hate speech all over. If you talk about terrorist acts, none of us here condones terrorism in any place on earth. But if you insist, go brush up on who started terrorism in this area. You will find your heroes in the Irgun, Hagana, and Stern to be among the pioneers. If you talk about killing and casualties, you must be truly out of your mind. Just check the record. Israeli is simply killing Palestinian civilians, women, and children almost on a daily basis. Just in the first few days of March of this year, Israel killed more than 100 Palestinians just in the span of a few days. The vast majority of those who were killed were civilians, and about 1/3 of them were women and children.

What i, and many Palestinians, are asking for is to just be able to move around, to be able to visit family, work freely, conduct business normally, import, export, distribute goods and services. Just basic stuff. We just want to be a sovereign nation. For example, the Palestinian mobile communications company (Jawwal) has been struggling with the Israeli government for months because they refuse to allow them to import and install a new broadcasting tower to be able to handle the increased number of mobile users. Just basic stuff like that are crippling Palestinian businesses. All we are asking for is our sovereignty.

So stop your ignorance about terrorism, because your Irgun, Hagana, and Stern were the pioneers of terrorism in this land. And stop your idiocy regarding “stealing land”, because up until this day you are stealing land and water in the West Bank in your settlements which even international law says are illegal.

And most importantly, STOP YOUR HATE SPEECH. It is people like you who are ensuring we do not have a peaceful resolution. After all, you killed your leader who brokered a peace agreement with the Palestinians (Yitzhak Rabin), and we didn’t.

The truth is that your people chose war instead of a state- time after time.

Shut up and go permeate in your people’s blogs instead of going on other people’s blogs and making a fool of your self.

You chose war. You lost. It’s over now.

I can’t believe there are people in the world like you.

I know what happened. The Arabs chose war instead of a state- many times.

There’s no reason to fight back because you would have had a state in peace without any fighting at all.

But you never wanted a state. You wanted my state.

So you get nothing. Not here.

I don’t live in fear, but the Arab terrorists and their supporters do. They always will as long as they choose terror.

Because we will hunt them down. Every last one. And they will suffer. I promise.

Your parents chose war. They suffered as a result.

Your peers today choose war. You will always suffer as a result.

Oh well. That’s your choice.

Good job! I love your blog. Now my daily read!

Also, are you on http://palestine.dailyvoices.com ? If not, I will add your link to there.

Za3tar, may god bless all your wonderful effort in making this event a reality, and a major Success

Iman: I know exactly what you mean. I have often felt that being born a Palestinian gets treated as if it is somehow a fault of your own.

SimSim: Thank you. I know what you mean. Over there you just have to get used to all the violence and attacks. Otherwise, you will go insane. People there just become so used to these things that it mostly becomes just background noise.

I have spent sometime outside Palestine now, and i started losing that sense of normality. When i went back last year, i was very jumpy at first, but then you get tuned in back again. You just have to.

u know what ! I envy the people who lives in palestine for thier courage …. they r fearless not like us … we would be shaking if we just hear something out side and it could be fire works !!

good job u did and I hope we write about palestine all the time …. this is the least thing we can do

Because with all honesty, the majority of the Arab masses are not worthy of setting foot in it.