But it is interesting that you state that your family origins are from Lod. May I ask what kind of cleansing was performed in Lod which left a situation where at least 10% of the population of the city is arab? (I lived in Lod most of my childhood so this number is from actual experience)
Maybe it is time you go to your family elders and ask them why they left the city while so many others remained? Maybe it is time that your family will take part of the blame on its current situation on mistakes they have made in the past instead of blaming every one else?

And this really comes back to gaza. Why are there so many refugees in gaza? isn't it because the egyptians in 48 said to the palestinians that they just need to move out of the way of their glorious army so they will not be heart while they concur palestian, and they believed it and left their homes and traveled to gaza. And then when the egyptians had failed, they created the great prison of gaza and didn't let the palestians any chance of integration into egypt.
Not that this is something that other arab states havn't done. If I'm not mistaken till this day the palestinians in lebanon are at best second class citizens.

Maybe it is time that the palestinians will wake up and smell the fresh coffee. 60 years of an “all or nothing” attitude brought them to nowere. the big autonomy in the west bank was reduced to a mainly symbolic autonomy after the second intifada in 2002, and the semi-state in gaza which exists from 2005 is now on its way to become just a big area of destroyed buildings, with no one in the world except for the iranians want to have anything to do with it.

Anyway I appreciate your candid answer to my question. it is much better than the “we want peace but you dont” rhetoric.

http://www.trendlines.com/reports/security.pdf

After taking American money to develop new ways to kill people, the Israelis even sell security technology back to the Americans (and other countries) for profit.

So economically, no Israel would not benefit from peace. Something about a military industrial complex. Maybe Eisenhower should have been Israeli? Not that his comment made any difference in the US…

http://www.trendlines.com/reports/security.pdf

After taking American money to develop new ways to kill people, the Israelis even sell security technology back to the Americans (and other countries) for profit.

So economically, no Israel would not benefit from peace. Something about a military industrial complex. Maybe Eisenhower should have been Israeli? Not that his comment made any difference in the US…

If you notice, I do say MOST Zionists. I will never discount or disregard Jews that had been living alongside Christian and Muslim Palestinians in Palestine. But when you have an influx of a new group of people, with a Colonial Racist Project in mind, of course there will a reaction to the project.

Lydd is very sad these days. The Palestinians that remained have been denied building permits and economic opportunity in Lydd, so the place turned into a ghetto. That and the Russian mafia’s that showed up added a violent, drug-filled culture to a once beautiful and peaceful place.

According to my family, they had little choice but to leave – it is well-documented the tactics of the Zionists to intimidate, force, and kill those who stayed and force them into leaving. Most of the men stayed back to fight and met up with the family later in Ramallah.

One day however, I’ll re-build my house in Lydd and raise my family in peace and justice with my neighbors.

If you notice, I do say MOST Zionists. I will never discount or disregard Jews that had been living alongside Christian and Muslim Palestinians in Palestine. But when you have an influx of a new group of people, with a Colonial Racist Project in mind, of course there will a reaction to the project.

Lydd is very sad these days. The Palestinians that remained have been denied building permits and economic opportunity in Lydd, so the place turned into a ghetto. That and the Russian mafia’s that showed up added a violent, drug-filled culture to a once beautiful and peaceful place.

According to my family, they had little choice but to leave – it is well-documented the tactics of the Zionists to intimidate, force, and kill those who stayed and force them into leaving. Most of the men stayed back to fight and met up with the family later in Ramallah.

One day however, I’ll re-build my house in Lydd and raise my family in peace and justice with my neighbors.

what a load of BS!!!! with all due respect farah, you have it completely backwards. nasrallah was hiding underground throughout the whole war… we “saw his face” only on simulcasts from his undisclosed locations.

meanwhile, it was the march 14 prime minister fouad siniora who was inspiring the lebanese people to survive and giving us courage through the attacks, in actual 3-dimensional addresses…

what a load of BS!!!! with all due respect farah, you have it completely backwards. nasrallah was hiding underground throughout the whole war… we “saw his face” only on simulcasts from his undisclosed locations.

meanwhile, it was the march 14 prime minister fouad siniora who was inspiring the lebanese people to survive and giving us courage through the attacks, in actual 3-dimensional addresses…