Palestinians
Jun 6 2011, Michael Davison

First it was “Naqba Day”, which has been around for a long time, and which I look at as the “sour grapes” of a sore loser who had done to him exactly what he expected to do to the victor, because he ever expected to lose.

I’ll qualify...

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