Quote of the Week: 23.7.06

Israeli Jews have always taken the view – and happily tell any outsiders as much – that the "Arabs" lost the right to their homes in the war of 1948 because they "fled" (in fact many were forcibly expelled, but let that drop for the moment)...

So how exactly should we regard those Israeli Jews now fleeing from Nahariya and Haifa? Should they lose their homes, their land, and their bank accounts just as the Palestinians did in 1948?

-- Jonathan Cook, Notes From Northern Israel; 19 July 2006



A deserted main street in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Sunday July 16, 2006. Lebanese guerrillas fired a relentless barrage of rockets into the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Sunday, killing eight people at a railway depot and wounding seven... (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

A deserted street in the centre of the northern Israeli town of Nahariya July 17, 2006. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

A deserted street in the center of the northern Israel town of Tiberias, by the Sea of Galilee, Sunday July 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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