BRATTLEBORO-The Commons' "difficult conversation" op-ed notes that "several hundred thousand" innocents were displaced. Indeed, that number was forced from their homes and into camps - back in 1948.
In the ensuing decades, by waging war Israeli land bloated in size and another few hundred thousand were uprooted. Currently, three million live under military occupation in the West Bank. In the past year well over two million Gazans were dispossessed by violence; months ago The Lancet stated roughly a tenth were killed. In the past two weeks no less than a million Lebanese have fled Israel's newly-launched ground war.
Farcical framing of the extent of ethnic cleansing displays a deep contempt for Arab suffering.
Holland Mills
Brattleboro
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