An Arab-Made Misery

I met Nonie Darwish, author, and a very brave woman, when she came to Chicago a few years ago to speak on her book, "Now They Call Me Infidel". Today she has a piece in the WSJ Europe:

International donors pledged almost $4.5 billion in aid for Gaza earlier this month. It has been very painful for me to witness over the past few years the deteriorating humanitarian situation in that narrow strip where I lived as a child in the 1950s.

The media tend to attribute Gaza's decline solely to Israeli military and economic actions against Hamas. But such a myopic analysis ignores the problem's root cause: 60 years of Arab policy aimed at cementing the Palestinian people's status as stateless refugees in order to use their suffering as a weapon against Israel.

As a child in Gaza in the 1950s, I experienced the early results of this policy.

Read it all. Arab countries forcing a Palestinian identity on people for an eternity. Her most recent book is "Cruel and Unusual Punishment".