AL-HAYAT via MEMRI
by Salman Masalha
August 7, 2015

….”Thus, while the propagators of this Arab discourse kept their heads buried in the sand, Israel continued to deepen its roots in the region – while on the other side, the [Arab] discourse aimed at arousing emotions and at mobilizing [these emotions] to serve those who silence common sense in the minds of people continued. In fact, the discourse on Palestine… was obviously no more than a tool used by the Arab leaders to avoid [admitting] that these Arab entities are just as false… And so the years passed, and here we are some seven decades later, during which we were born, grew up, and got old on this plot of land, and what do we see around us? Undoubtedly, any Arab with a smidgen of understanding finds himself facing the same questions: ‘Where are the states of the gangs – and where are the false entities?’…”Therefore, how should we describe our situation? Perhaps in this way: ‘Our troubles come from us,’ as the popular saying goes.” READ MORE