Israel and Palestine

by Elizabeth Graff, on April 2012, Israel and Palestine

It is a joke in the Middle East that the Jews and Palestinians compete for the title of biggest victim. The Jews put forth their suffering in the Holocaust. The Palestinians say that they were exiled from their ancestral homeland by European invaders, whom the Palestinians had done nothing to harm. Jewish grandmothers show the tattoos on their arms from Nazi death camps. Palestinian grandfathers cry over the key to…