My Turn: Only Justice Can Bring Lasting Peace in Gaza

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The hot war against Gaza is over, the numbers of dead and wounded are off the news, but the cold war continues. The suffering of the Palestinians has not ceased since 1948 when the "transfer" began -- that is, the removal of the Palestinians from their homeland so Israel would have space to put down roots and become the new Jewish state. This was the death of Palestine as a nation and the birth of the Palestinian Refugees as an entity.

Of course the "transfer" was no more just and peaceful than the "transfer" of Native Americans onto reservations so that European settlers could establish their "land of the free."

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My Turn: Only Justice Can Bring Lasting Peace in Gaza

There were a number of Zionist militias like the Irgun who facilitated the "transfer" of Palestinians by the usual ethnic cleansing methods of massacre and intimidation.

The 1948 massacre at Deir Yassin, ...

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