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Do You Care About The Nakba?

May 15, 2007 · Mustapha Hamoui

Here’s to a little honesty:
 
 As I watch Fatah and Hamas getting at each other’s throats in Gaza, slaughtering each other like goats, and as I ponder the fate of a western journalist who lived among them, ate their food and shared their fears, only to let the world know of their grievances, someone they failed to protect because they were too busy killing each other, I realized that I don’t give a damn about the Nakba day, a historic failure still remembered 59 years later..

Sometimes, I can’t help but wonder if the Palestinians’ misery isn’t of their own making.