Israel turns 70 as Palestine grieves

While Palestinians were being slaughtered, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was declaring this a most glorious day. 

Ivanka Trump smiled and Jared Kushner nervously gave hollow speeches befitting a thirteen year old boy at his bar mitzvah. President Trump game show host, appeared triumphant on screen.

As the child of Jewish parents, I could claim the right of return to Israel; but I feel disgust and despair at the current celebrations. I have no desire to claim citizenship or the right of return. What about the Palestinians right of return? I am the child of victims of the Holocaust and I grieve the losses of my family.

But  the Palestinians who have been – and continue to be – displaced, murdered and contained in an open air prison continue to grieve.

Read the article by Lyn Bender at Independent Australia.

[Ed: The author has deceptively conflated the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem with the aims of the Great Land March, which was originally organised to oppose Israel’s 70th year of independence. This author has put two simple contradictory images side by side in order to paint a false malicious picture about Israel and the United States.]