THE FORWARD, N.Y.
October 25, 2002
Letters, p. 12 (untitled letter; the topic was Israeli citizenship for Jewish immigrants and no citizenship for displaced Palestinians)
Yisrael Medad's opinion article is notable for what's not stated. While arguing that "revenant" Jews should be permitted to live both inside and outside the Green Line, he doesn't offer that same right to Palestinians forced into exile in 1948, nor for their descendants.
The claims of Palestinians to be settlers in their own country are far more moral than any claim I could offer as an American Jew whose grandparents arrived here from Lithuania, Poland and Russia, our 2,000 year-long-exile in the Diaspora notwithstanding.
If settlement were a two-way street, rather than the one-way street - for Jews only - promoted by settlers and all Israeli governments since the Six-Day War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would end next month.
Akiva Segan
Seattle, Wash.