Status Updates From Palestine: History of a Los...

Many Israelis today -and many others who read only Zionists accounts- still do not know the true story of how the Palestinians lost their land, and some Israelis, who do know, argue that the myths that surround the birth of Israel should be actively promoted.

This partition of Palestine -first as an idea and later a reality- has been a crucial factor ever since in the continuing dispute between the Arabs and the Jews. For someone who knows nothing about Palestine it is a deceptively persuasive solution.

In the light of today's events, then, the attitude of the Israeli government to the Palestinian Arabs is not different from that of the early Zionists.