PoliticalChic
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This guy, Trump, a brilliance clearly missing in three quarters of a century of global pundits!
1. "...the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is ādisasterā; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted on an innocent and blameless people (in this case, the Palestinians) by an overpowering outside force (international Zionism). The Nakba is the heart of the Palestiniansā backward-looking national narrative, which depicts the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as the original sin that dispossessed the landās native people.
Echoing the Nakba narrative is an international coalition of leftists that celebrates the Palestinians as the quintessential Other, the last victims of Western racism and colonialism."
The Nakba Obsession
2. Decades of failed plans and failed politicians, wringing their hands to find a way to find "peace."
Trump is the first to slice this Gordian Knot.
3. "Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred yearsāPalestine. During meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, Trump said he was going to move 1.7 million Palestinians out of Gaza.
And just like that, he broke the long spell that had captured generations of world leaders, peace activists, and Middle East terror masters alike, who had paradoxically come to regard the repeated failure and haunting secondary consequences of the idea of joint Arab Muslim and Jewish statehood in the same small piece of land as proof of its necessity."
4. "Palestine was a misshapen idea from the beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. The Arabs could have gone along with the U.N.ās partition plan like the Jews did, and chosen to build whatever version of Switzerland or Belgium on the eastern Med in 1948. Instead, they resoundingly chose war. Thatās the storied āNakbaā at the core of the Palestinian legendāthe catastrophe that drove the Arabs from their land and hung a key around the neck of a nation waiting to go home. The Arabs chose the catastrophe; they chose war, based on the premise that they would inevitably win and exterminate the Jews."
5. "... despite repeated military failures, and the increasing distance between the first-world powerhouse that the Israelis built and their increasingly war-torn, third-world neighborhood, the global conscience was always predisposed to rebuilding what the Palestinians destroyed.
Trump said, enough, weāre not rebuilding Gaza. Time for a new ideaāthe Gazans have to to go, they can try to start again somewhere else, in a land where every building still standing isnāt already wired to explode."
www.tabletmag.com
1. "...the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is ādisasterā; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted on an innocent and blameless people (in this case, the Palestinians) by an overpowering outside force (international Zionism). The Nakba is the heart of the Palestiniansā backward-looking national narrative, which depicts the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as the original sin that dispossessed the landās native people.
Echoing the Nakba narrative is an international coalition of leftists that celebrates the Palestinians as the quintessential Other, the last victims of Western racism and colonialism."
The Nakba Obsession
2. Decades of failed plans and failed politicians, wringing their hands to find a way to find "peace."
Trump is the first to slice this Gordian Knot.
3. "Yesterday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most destructive idea of the last hundred yearsāPalestine. During meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, Trump said he was going to move 1.7 million Palestinians out of Gaza.
And just like that, he broke the long spell that had captured generations of world leaders, peace activists, and Middle East terror masters alike, who had paradoxically come to regard the repeated failure and haunting secondary consequences of the idea of joint Arab Muslim and Jewish statehood in the same small piece of land as proof of its necessity."
4. "Palestine was a misshapen idea from the beginning, engendered by an act of pure negation. The Arabs could have gone along with the U.N.ās partition plan like the Jews did, and chosen to build whatever version of Switzerland or Belgium on the eastern Med in 1948. Instead, they resoundingly chose war. Thatās the storied āNakbaā at the core of the Palestinian legendāthe catastrophe that drove the Arabs from their land and hung a key around the neck of a nation waiting to go home. The Arabs chose the catastrophe; they chose war, based on the premise that they would inevitably win and exterminate the Jews."
5. "... despite repeated military failures, and the increasing distance between the first-world powerhouse that the Israelis built and their increasingly war-torn, third-world neighborhood, the global conscience was always predisposed to rebuilding what the Palestinians destroyed.
Trump said, enough, weāre not rebuilding Gaza. Time for a new ideaāthe Gazans have to to go, they can try to start again somewhere else, in a land where every building still standing isnāt already wired to explode."
The End of āPalestineā
Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates
www.tabletmag.com
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