A few years is insignificant. What is important that it did happen, we agree it happened, and to quibble over a minor detail seems trivial
Facts do matter, len, and though the difference between 70CE and 79CE may seem small from our present time, if you were a Roman, the differnce between Emperor Nero and Emperor Vespasian was anything but insignificant.
If facts don't matter, then you can just make up your history, as we see the Palestinians doing daily.
While the Israelis have their share of national myths, they also have a school of revisionist historians examining those myths trying to establish the actual truth. Another effort NOT reciprocated by anyone on the Arab side.
The door swings both ways, why should the Palestinians get over it yet someone else who has a biblical claim to the land for 1900 years should not?
The Israelis are not mailing in land deeds from the Torah. They are there, they are home, they have been there for over 100 years, 50 as a legitimate state. All the Arabs (if it was just the Israelis vs. the Palestinians it would be a very different matter as you well know) need to acknowledge reality. Until they do, they will continue to miss the boat on modernization of their own societies, more and more. |
