Last week, we noted that there’s no comparison between Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in 1948 and 1967 and evacuated Israeli settlers. The Palestinians lost their homes as a result of wars they encouraged, while the settlers are leaving as a result of an Israeli unilateral move for peace. Unfortunately, media comparisons continue, such as this commentary by Georgie Geyer:
One had to feel deep emotion for the sobbing, moaning Israelis, brought there originally by the Israeli military in the late 1960s as a kind of immigration buffer against the Palestinians. Many of them must feel double-crossed, which makes one wonder whether they will form an Israeli-style version of the humiliated German “Versailles generation.”
But one also has to feel pity for the long-suffering and humiliated Palestinians, 250,000 of whose immigrant antecedents fled to Gaza after the 1948 U.N. partition and then war with Israel. Today, they are some 1.5 million poor, angry souls jammed into a tiny, miserable piece of land that is barely 10 miles wide and 30 miles long. Their cities are a congeries of ghostly white buildings that stand like bare skeletons in a violent and joyless world.
See also cartoons by Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (below), Chris Britt of the Springfield Journal-Register, and Theo Moudakis of the Toronto Star.
