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Prittie On The Palestine Question:
1968
‘[C]hampions of an Arab
Palestine have always argued that the Jews, by stealth, cunning, propaganda, and
foreign help, took “their state” as well as their homes and farmsteads away
from them.
In
reality, no such state ever existed, and part of the much buffeted, tyrannized,
and misruled Palestinian population of 1948 deprived themselves of their homes
by panic flight.
The
sufferings of these half-million Palestinian Arabs, and of their children, have
been wretched in the extreme.
So have the sufferings of myriad Jews during the past two thousand years.
But there is little purpose in setting these sufferings off against each other;
they are part of the aggregate of unhappiness of the peoples of the Middle
East.’
Terence Prittie,
Israel: Miracle in the Desert (published 1968, Frederick A. Praeger,
Inc.), p. 222.
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