Nakba Day for Peacemongers: A Combatants for Peace Oxymoron

Come on Jews! Let us join in the Palestinian Nakba Day ceremony! After all, we were invited by the NGO Combatants for Peace. Must mean that this is another step along the path toward peace between Jews and Palestinian Arabs. After all, they are combatants FOR PEACE, no? If we listen closely enough, we can see what they are really about.

Nakba Day commemorates the Palestinian Arab catastrophe in face of the Palestinian Jewish victory of 1948. We should remember that until 1948, everyone living in the British Mandate of Palestine were Palestinians, not just the Arabs who resisted referring to themselves as such back then. Nakba Day marks the Arab defeat when five invading Arab armies (Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq) failed to wipe out the nascent modern Jewish state. Since Arab society is one that focuses on honour, their Nakba has nothing to do with how many Palestinian Arabs fled or felt forced to flee the Jewish soldiers and everything to do with the fact that they lost a war against us, thus resulting in humiliation — the Jewish dhimmi overcame the Arab and not much can be more humiliating than that.

An injury to honour in Muslim Arab society can result in murderous rage as exemplified by so-called “Honour Killings” when fathers or brothers kill their daughters or sisters for something as slight as having been seen talking with a man who is not a member of the family, the murder restoring family “honour”. Since the newly declared Israel insulted the honour of the Muslim Arabs, the same murderous rage was aroused. This has resulted in wars, not only in 1948, but in 1956, 1967, 1973 and more. It is behind the terrorist attacks in Israel and against Israeli/Jewish targets around the globe. These did not seem to achieve the goal of forcing the Jew back into dhimmi status within the larger Arab environment.

And then a brilliant new offensive was invented: The pretence of having come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state and pretending to promote peace.

And the most sardonic application of this new strategy has been the conscription of Jews, themselves, to the propaganda “army” seeking the demise of Israel by means of events that are meant to encourage Jewish appeasement to the Palestinian Arabs they supposedly continue to oppress on a daily basis. First it is made to seem as if there is some form of equivalence between dead and injured victims of Palestinian Arab terrorism and dead, injured and imprisoned Palestinian Arab terrorists. I am referring to the joint memorial for Jewish and Palestinian Arab victims of “the occupation” that takes place, not on a date set aside for that particular event, not on the date of the Palestinian Authority (PA) memorial in honour of the shaheedim, but on the date of the Israeli day of mourning for victims of wars and terror committed by the Arab states and the PA against Israel. And, as I wrote in this article, Jewish representatives of the organizations running the event saw nothing wrong, in fact supported, “occupying” the Jewish memorial date with this twisted and self-immolating event.

In similar fashion, there is soon to be an event “occupying” the Gregorian Calendar date of Israeli Independence Day (May 15). Israel celebrates its independence on the Hebrew date, which does not always coincide with the Gregorian date and which takes place on the very day following the day of mourning for our fallen and injured, this year on April 13-14. Use of the Gregorian date allows the organizers of Nakba Day a full month between events this year, and this repetition of supposedly “peaceful” protest against Israel’s “occupation” of the PA doubles the impact of such antisemitic cries of foul against the Jewish nation aided and abetted by a number of Jews against their own.

In the Facebook post introducing the promo for the event, Combantants for Peace write:

On May 15th, Palestinians all over the world will observe the Nakba Day, and we, Combatants for Peace, will hold a unique ceremony to remember the wrongs that have been happening since 1948.

Those who know history might wonder if any of “the wrongs that have been happening since 1948” includes the occupation of Judea & Samaria by Jordan, an occupation that was not recognized by the UN and was declared illegal and during which nobody ever spoke of a Palestinian state. But for some reason, whenever anyone talks about historic wrongs, Jordan is never mentioned. By declaring wrongs committed since 1948, Combatants for Peace are declaring the entirety of Israel is a “wrong” against the Palestinian Arabs. And they go on:

Join our broadcast to learn about the Nakba through testimonies from Palestinians who suffer from it, and from Jewish-Israelis who are devoted to fix this historic wrong.We encourage you to open your minds and hearts, and explore new vantage points on our twisted reality.Only through a healthy dialog and real partnership we can end the Israeli occupation, end the violence cycle, and live together peacefully.

Do the Jewish-Israelis “devoted to fix this historic wrong” agree that that historic wrong was the very establishment of the modern State of Israel? Is the “healthy dialogue” promoted by Combantants for Peace not a dialogue that seeks, in fact, to end the Jewish state? After all, that purpose becomes clear at the very end of the video in the post. I wrote out the text below this minute-long video.

It sounds so democratic: you can disagree but we must talk about it. And then at the end there is the punchline.

[Jewish man] Because the fulfillment of our dream shattered their dream.
[Arab woman] Because the memories are still alive with us.
[Jewish woman] Because the wound is still open.
[Arab woman] Because erasing our past
[Arab man] Because erasing our past denies us our present.
[Jewish man] Because the demons we locked in the closet continue to haunt us.
[Arab woman] Because we are still trapped in our role as victims
[Arab woman] Because of all this
[Jewish man] We must open the closet door
[Jewish woman] we must open the closet door
[Arab man] We must remember the Nakba.
[Arab woman] We must speak about the Nakba
[Jewish woman] You can disagree
[Arab woman] You can disagree
[Arab man] You can disagree
{Arab woman] But we must talk about the Nakba
[Jewish man] In order to build a different future here
[Arab man] A future without conquerers and conquered
[Jewish woman] A future in which the land brings us together instead of dividing us
{Arab man] in which the land is sustained and not crushed
[Arab woman] A future on this land
[Jewish woman] in which there is room for everyone
[Arab woman] There is room for everyone
[Jewish man] There is room for everyone
[Arab man] For everyone
[Arab man] On Nakba Day we remember the rights of the refugees.

Let me repeat that punchline: On Nakba Day we remember the rights of the refugees!

This refrain, the rights of the Palestinian Arab refugees, is repeated in countless academic articles and on anti-Israel websites, at “apartheid week” events on university campuses and anti-Israel demonstrations around the world. Here is a concise example from a semi-academic publication:

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that under international law, the 1948 Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homes of origin inside what is now Israel.

So there it is! The purpose of Combatants for Peace is to succeed where military efforts have failed. The purpose of Combatants for Peace is to flood Israel with the descendants of those who fled as the five Arab armies attempted to erase from the map the newly declared modern State of Israel before the ink on the Declaration of Independence had even dried. The purpose of Combatants for Peace and their Nakba Day ceremony featuring their Jewish stooges is to turn Israel into a state of all its citizens in which the Jew will be a minority and thus easily returned to the rightful status of dhimmi. Honour regained. End of the story.