Why the Arab-Israeli struggle will not end soon

There is more that separates us as Arabs from the European Jewish settlers of the land of Palestine than mere religion alone. I really hate it when the struggle of the Palestinian  people for recognition, for freedom from occupation and for nationhood that has dragged on for over half a century is reduced to a Muslim-against-Jew fight by the Western media. What divides us is far more substantial, it is a cultural thing, it is a different world view, an attitude of righteous indignation and a national fervor that we were fed as infants together with mother's milk, it is a far greater barrier than which God we pray to or how.

The no-man’s-land between us is littered with history, milestones of misery, countless injustices, frustration and anger. Peace, I can't see it in my life time, nor would I want to see it until the Israelis make a serious attempt at making amends and reparations for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians they have wronged. At the very least allow the return of all refugees and their families to their lands and allow them to rebuild the hundreds of villages that wer bulldozed by Israelis  post 1948 to convince the world that Palestine was an empty desolate place waiting for the chosen people to return to populate it.

May 15 is more than a date, it’s a somber reminder from our fathers and grandfathers from beyond the grave that we still have a fight to come.

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