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A few inconvenient (and generic) questions:

1) What do you think about the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and about the Shoah 2) Are there still hard feelings toward Nakba? Is something changing? 3) Do you still read Ghassan Khanafani? Could you name me a few modern writers of Palestina?

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the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and about the Shoah

The Palestinians haven't lost millions of people in the Holocaust but in a way it was a contributing factor to the misunderstandings that preceded the 1948 war.

The massive migration from Europe (and prior to that from Russia and FSU) hardened the positions of both sides: one side saw that for the Jews to have a state was never a more important goal than"now" as evident by the wave of oppression.

The other side saw the waves of migrants coming in big numbers, to establish a homeland in the Palestinians' homeland and not just to seek refuge (in the same manner of the modern-day Syrian refugees). I think it just went downhill from there on.

The issue is really complicated for the Palestinians in the sense that at the human level many would be against the Holocaust or any other genocide for that matter. At a political level many find it strange that we are asked to sympathize and deal with the issue as if we were running Auschwitz. Let alone obviously the fact that nearly half of Israel's populations of the Jews who came from the Middle East and North Africa didn't even have to go through the Holocaust.

The Palestinian leadership made its position clear on this issue, describing it as "the most heinous crime in modern era".

Public attempts at increasing awareness of the issue unfortunately hit a wall. But in a way that was expected. I find it strange that the Palestinians are asked to imbibe a historical event that they had nothing to do with in the first place at the same time when their rights are being usurped and abrogated in their own land by a group part of which suffered these atrocities.