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Submitted by Stephen Schwartz, Nov 6, 2007 10:27

While Israel rightfully rejects the return of Palestinians who left or were driven out in the wake of the Arab War launched against Israel at its birth, the basis for doing so is not that Palestinians returning would amount to a colonial enterprise. The creation of a Jewish state in Israel may be opposed by Arabs, wrongfully to my mind, but the basis for doing so cannot be that it constitutes colonialism. Would the Palestinians who seek to return call what they want to do, rightly or wrongly, colonialism? Intellectual joins a list of dishonesties that permeate Palestinian thinking and actions.

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