The Massada tragedy is simply the New Hampshire motto "Live Free or Die". The only alternative was exile and enslavement. If The Palestinians' only alternative was exile and enslavement, I could understand them doing what the Massada people did, kill them selves without killing innocent bystanders. But The Palestinians have missed opportunities after opportunities that do not involve enslavement, nor exile ( they would still be living in Arab countries where most of them came from). The big question is what is a "Palestinian" is never addressed in the media. But, apply to that question the Muslim standard applied for instance in Kuwait (you are Kuwaiti if and only if, you can trace you ancestral line through your father's male line to Kuwait all the way to 1913, each male in the line having been born in Kuwait). In 1880, there were only 120,000 Arabs in what is now called "Palestine", by 1913, that number could not have been greater than 200,000. Only the descendent of the roughly 100,000 males should thus be considered "Palestinians", according to the Muslim law now accepted in Kuwait. Arafat himself is an Egyptian, not even a Palestinian. His daughter lives in Paris, away from the misery of his own people. What is "good for Arafat" might be good for his flock.
Zeev |
