The Double Nakba

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4. The Palestinians need to recognize that they have the most responsibility.

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They started the war that made them refugees and led to the occupation of their proposed state by their brother Arabs. There is no way that Israel can or should recognize any responsibility for the Nakhba, because it is a myth. It's wrong to admit something that isn't true, and it's especially wrong for Israel to admit to some lie that is part of a campaign to destroy it.

"Nakhba" doesn't mean merely that there are refugees (which every Israeli knows and admits) or even that Israel has some responsibility for the refugee problem (which many, if not most Israelis also know). Nakhba is the Arab understanding of the refugee problem. They mean that the Paestinians:

1. Are the innocent victims
2. Of the intentional expulsion of all of the refugees
3. Without which Israel could not have come into existence.

Each of those elements is false and as a whole they make up a gross lie about Israel and history. Why should Israel admit something that is so blatantly false? Especially when many or most of them readily admit the truth? And when the lie is part of a campaign to destroy the Jewish state?