{"id":229,"date":"2011-05-16T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/peacenotwalls\/?p=229"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:42:45","slug":"may-15-brings-celebration-and-lament-in-the-holy-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/elcasumud\/may-15-brings-celebration-and-lament-in-the-holy-land\/","title":{"rendered":"May 15 brings celebration and lament in the Holy Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">May 15, the day Israelis and most of the world celebrate the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 every year, is a painful day for Palestinians, whose experience of that day and history is very different from the Israeli history.\u00a0\u00a0Popular news media run stories\u00a0on this\u00a0day about Palestinian violence and anger at the\u00a0creation of Israel, yet they present no context for the situation.\u00a0 Indeed, this year protests saw the <a title=\"At least 12 killed in clashes May 15\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-troops-fire-at-palestinian-protestors-on-borders-killing-at-least-12\/2011\/05\/15\/AF9lnF4G_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Israelis killing 12 people\u00a0near the\u00a0borders<\/a> and a youth\u00a0in Jerusalem, who was most likely shot by a settler group that has been evicted by the Israelis themselves for illegally occupying their house in the\u00a0Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan.\u00a0 Hundreds more were wounded or detained in various protests all throughout the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bm7dMhE80dw\">httpvh:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bm7dMhE80dw<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In popular news media, there is often \u00a0little explanation that the Palestinians are grieving the past and lamenting the present, where to this day the longest military occupation in history is still going strong.\u00a0 The reality of what happened in the Holy Land in 1947-48 &#8211; and well before &#8211; is sharply different for Palestinians than for Israelis.\u00a0 For Palestinians, this is the Nakba &#8211; the catastrophe &#8211; when between 700,000 and 800,000 people were expelled from their homes and\u00a0over 500 villages were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Most Americans know the story as it was portrated in the movie Exodus by Leon Uris\u00a0starring Paul Neuman, where it looks like the\u00a0little country of Israel was inexplicably attacked when it declared itself a state by 5 large\u00a0Arab nations\u00a0who had many more men and weapons than Israel.\u00a0 More and more Israeli historians point to a very different reality.\u00a0 Using material from Israel&#8217;s archives, they say Israeli paramilitary groups (some deemed terrorist by the British, all very well-armed) targeted many villages, indeed even carried out massacres and violent expulsions, so that the people would flee.\u00a0 Disorganized action\u00a0by these Arab countries didn&#8217;t offer much effective resistance and they were outnumbered and outgunned.\u00a0 This is according to some new Israeli historians like\u00a0Ilan Pappe, who also says that about half of the refugees and half of the villages were destroyed<strong><em> before <\/em><\/strong>the creation of the state of Israel was even declared.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Much\u00a0of the &#8220;violence&#8221; of this day is in fact non-violent protest and civil disobedience that is met by Israeli\u00a0tear gas, rubber-coated steel bullets and\u00a0detention of those participating.\u00a0 Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a well-known non-violent peace protester, has been detained and is\u00a0still in prison as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is also noteworthy that the Israeli government just passed a law that makes discussing\u00a0the Nakba (which they say negates the reality of the Jewish state) cause for threatening a public\u00a0organization&#8217;s funding.\u00a0 While the first one, which made it a crime to mention the word Nakba, \u00a0only passed on part of the Parliament, a milder version passed that says this:\u00a0 <em>\u201cany body that is funded by the state, or a public institute that is supported by the state, will be barred from allocating money to activity that involves the negation of the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people; the negation of the state\u2019s democratic character; support for armed struggle, or terror acts by an enemy or a terror organization against the state of Israel; incitement to racism, violence and terror and dishonoring the national flag or the national symbol.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Jews should acknowledge Nakba Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zochrot.org\/en\/video\/nakba-law-german-it-sounds-worse\" target=\"_blank\">See one Israeli organization defying this law.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part two of the video on the Nakba can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jYvimRnlTqE\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/jYvimRnlTqE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>View the more traditional Israeli view of history in the History Channel&#8217;s \u00a0<a title=\"Birth of a Nation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u3HoAhitiog\">The Birth of a Nation <\/a>.(it is in 10 parts)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 May 15, the day Israelis and most of the world celebrate the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 every year, is a painful day for Palestinians, whose experience of that day and history is very different from the Israeli history.\u00a0\u00a0Popular news media run stories\u00a0on this\u00a0day about Palestinian violence and anger at the\u00a0creation 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