80 year old Palestinian gives advice to Gazans: Choose to die! ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

80 year old Palestinian gives advice to Gazans: Choose to die!

From NPR in February:

Khadija al-Ali was just 3 years old when her family fled their home in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and came to this Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.

"My advice to the people of Gaza is to hold on. Do not leave, even if it means they all become martyrs," she said.

Hmmm. The headline didn't mention that last part:

Saying that it is better for 2 million people to die than to seek safety is a hell of a message. Yet this is mainstream Palestinian thinking - when they are not the ones who are in danger of being killed.

There's another message she has:

"The Arab armies were all saying, 'We are coming to fight for you. Leave for eight days, and we will liberate the land,'" she said. "People left carrying their house keys and locking their doors. So people left thinking they would return in eight days."

Those eight days have turned into 77 years in the congested Jaramana Refugee Camp on the edge of Damascus

Yet this small fact - that the Palestinian Arabs were told to leave in expectation of slaughtering the Jews and their imminent victorious return - is left unremarked by NPR.

Instead, it gives a revisionist history of the 1948 war:

That 1948 Mideast War erupted at Israel's founding and pitted Israel against several Arab states. The war scattered some 750,000 Palestinian refugees throughout the Middle East.

It "erupted." No one attacked Israel, no, it was just a volcano. And the attacks against Jews before Israel's founding are left unmentioned. The fact that there were Jewish refugees from the war too, who became citizens - not mentioned. The fact that the Arab world expelled a similar amount of Jews - no one has to know that.

In December 1948, while the war was still ongoing, the United Nations passed Resolution 194, which says refugees should be able to return to their homes at "the earliest practicable date."

NPR decided to exclude another condition: "the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours."

Given the cheers, fireworks and sweets Palestinians routinely provide every time Jews get viciously killed, it seems that these six words were never fulfilled in 77 years.

I wonder why NPR decides to report things so one-sidedly.

Actually, no one wonders that.