Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: esercizio di fantastoria

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304432304576371771855162448.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion
What If Jews Had Followed the Palestinian Path?
Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no 'right
of return' requested.
    By WARREN KOZAK
It is doubtful that there has ever been a more miserable human refuse
than Jewish survivors after World War II. Starving, emaciated,
stateless—they were not welcomed back by countries where they had
lived for generations as assimilated and educated citizens. Germany
was no place to return to and in Kielce, Poland, 40 Jews who survived
the Holocaust were killed in a pogrom one year after the war ended.
The European Jew, circa 1945, quickly went from victim to
international refugee disaster.
Yet within a very brief time, this epic calamity disappeared, so much
so that few people today even remember the period. How did this happen
in an era when Palestinian refugees have continued to be stateless for
generations?
In 1945, there were hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors living
in DP Camps (displaced persons) across Europe. They were fed and
clothed by Jewish and international relief organizations. Had the
world's Jewish population played this situation as the Arabs and
Palestinians have, everything would look very different today.
To begin with, the Jews would all still be living in these DP camps,
only now the camps would have become squalid ghettos throughout
Europe. The refugees would continue to be fed and clothed by a
committee similar to UNRWA—the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (paid for mostly by the United
States since 1948). Blessed with one of the world's highest birth
rates, they would now number in the many millions. And 66 years later,
new generations, fed on a mixture of hate and lies against the
Europeans, would now seethe with anger.
Sometime in the early 1960s, the Jewish leadership of these refugee
camps, having been trained in Moscow to wreak havoc on the West (as
Yasser Arafat was) would have started to employ terrorism to shake
down governments. Airplane hijackings in the 1970s would have been
followed by passenger killings. There would have been attacks on high-
profile targets as well—say, the German or Polish Olympic teams.
By the 1990s, the real mayhem would have begun. Raised on victimhood
and used as cannon fodder by corrupt leaders, a generation of younger
Jews would be blowing up buses, restaurants and themselves. The
billions of dollars extorted from various governments would not have
gone to the inhabitants of the camps. The money would be in the Swiss
bank accounts of the refugees' famous and flamboyant leaders and their
lackies.
So now it's the present, generations past the end of World War II, and
the festering Jewish refugee problem throughout Europe has absolutely
no end in sight. The worst part of this story would be the wasted
lives of millions of human beings in the camps—inventions not
invented, illnesses not cured, high-tech startups not started up,
symphonies and books not written—a real cultural and spiritual desert.
None of this happened, of course. Instead, the Jewish refugees
returned to their ancestral homeland. They left everything they had in
Europe and turned their backs on the Continent—no "right of return"
requested. They were welcomed by the 650,000 Jewish residents of
Israel.
An additional 700,000 Jewish refugees flooded into the new state from
Arab lands after they were summarily kicked out. Again losing
everything after generations in one place; again welcomed in their new
home.
In Israel, they did it all the hard way. They built a new country from
scratch with roads, housing and schools. They created agricultural
collectives to feed their people. They created a successful economy
without domestic oil, and they built one of the world's most vibrant
democracies in a region sadly devoid of free thought.
Yes, the Israelis did all this with the financial assistance of Jews
around the world and others who helped get them on their feet so they
could take care of themselves. These outsiders did not ignore them, or
demean them, or use them as pawns in their own political schemes—as
the Arab nations have done with the Palestinians.
I imagine the argument will be made that while the Jews may have
achieved all this, they did not have their land stolen from them. This
is, of course, a canard, another convenient lie. They did lose
property all over Europe and the Mideast. And there was never an
independent Palestine run by Palestinian Arabs. Ever. Jews and Arabs
lived in this area controlled first by the Turks and then by the
British. The U.N. offered the two-state solution that we hear so much
about in 1947. The problem then, and now, is that it was accepted by
only one party, Israel. No doubt, the situation of Arab residents of
the Middle East back then may have been difficult, but it is
incomprehensible that their lot was worse than that of the Jews at the
end of World War II.
We don't hear about any of this because giving human beings hope and
purpose doesn't make great copy. Squalor, victimhood and terror are
always more exciting. Perhaps in the end, the greatest crime of the
Jews was that they quietly created something from nothing. And in the
process, they transformed themselves.
Golda Meir is credited with having said that if the Jews had not
fought back against the Arab armies and had been destroyed in 1948,
they would have received the most beautiful eulogies throughout the
world. Instead, they chose to stand their ground and defend
themselves. And in winning, they received the world's condemnation.
Meir said she would take the condemnation over the eulogies.

 
|_  Monday, February 29, 2016 Palestinian ambassador to North Korea praises its leaders as “ brilliant , devoted to freedom “  - From the official website of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un : Ismail Ahmed Mohamed Hasan “ Palestine  ambassador “ to the DPRK , hosted a reception at his embassy on Friday on the occasion of the birth anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il . Present there on invitation were Yang Hyong Sop , vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK , and officials concerned . The ambassador said in his speech that Kim Jong Il's revolutionary career is an outstanding example as a state leader possessed of brilliant idea and creative caliber . He devoted himself to the freedom of the country and its people’ s happiness and the victory of the oppressed people's struggle , the ambassador noted , adding :
 
The Korean people are making a fresh leap and innovations in all fields for building socialist economic construction under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un who is leading the all-out advance for building a thriving nation as the successor to the cause of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il .
 
Yang Hyong Sop said that Kim Jong Il made great contributions to firmly defending the country , the nation and the destiny of socialism and ensuring the peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the rest of the world with his original Songun politics . He noted that the service personnel and people of the DPRK would surely build a paradise of the people , a reunified powerful nation on this land as desired by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, rallied close around Kim Jong Un  . He said that the DPRK government and the Korean people would as ever send invariable support and solidarity to the just cause of the Palestinian people for regaining the legitimate national rights .
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