Accepting the past

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Any protester chanting this slogan is encouraging others to go to their death, and to go and kill innocent people, while themselves promising only to write a cross message on a piece of cardboard and wave it outside the Garfunkel’s restaurant near Trafalgar Square.

Unfortunately at the moment it's doubtful that "those people in Palestine itself who might be willing to come to terms with both reality and Israel" number more than a handful. For that we must thank not only radical Islam and Hamas and Iran, but also UNRWA, and the tens of thousnds of Free Palestine marchers and students across the West.

Also, of course, it's not just the Palestinians displaced in the course of Israel's founding. That was just one factor in the general "ethnic cleansings" of the last century. There's also the equivalent number – possibly more – of Jews displaced from the Middle East and North Africa, where they'd lived for thousands of years before their expulsion. Not to mention Greeks/Turks, Indians/Pakistanis, Germans expelled from Poland, etc. etc.. All forgotten and resolved – apart from this one exception…