Jewish Identity and Palestinian Displacement

How to be a Jew after the ethnic cleansing of

Palestine. I'm a Jew born in America in nineteen

forty-eight.

I go to Palestine,

and I find out that we have driven out an entire population, and we're

engaged in a process of ethnically cleansing an indigenous

population, a beautiful, wonderful culture.

The Jewish story of today is not the story of our suffering in the

past, which

gives us total innocence and the right to do whatever we want.

Our story of today

is the story of what we are doing to another people.

Our story is the Nakba, what the Palestinians call the

catastrophe,

their Holocaust. And if we do not understand that this is our

story, we are done for.

And I tell you, Rabbi, that the day will come

when we will be on our knees in contrition and beating our breasts in

shame for what we have done, and may that day come speedily

and in our times as the Jewish prayer goes.