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The question was a valid one: “How could you, a conservative and a gentleman, be for them?”
The asker is an acquaintance of long standing, also a gent, so I bothered to explain. “Because I’ve been there and have seen what’s going on up close.”
Needless to say, it was the Middle East we were talking about, and my sympathy for the Palestinians rather than for tiny Israel, surrounded as it is by hostile Arab nations. I was based in Amman starting in 1969 and through the “Black September” one year later, when King Hussein destroyed the PLO effort to take over his country. I had visited the Palestinian refugee camps, occupied by those evicted during the founding of Israel in 1948. I then covered the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and have visited many more such camps in Lebanon since then. All I can say is, once you’ve seen the misery of life in those camps it would take a heart of stone not to feel something for the Palestinians.
read more at https://chroniclesmagazine.org/recent-features/sympathy-for-palestinian-misery/
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