Letter: Nakba: Did anybody ask the Palestinians?

Published: 01-09-2025 4:31 PM

It boggles my mind that someone in city government decided to modify a calendar entry to “be unbiased and accurate” based upon the objections of a partisan political group about the atrocities committed against innocents in the Arab-Israeli War. Then, they removed the item and stated publicly that the inclusion of the Nakba was “a grave oversight.”

Who said this? Was it debated anywhere? Did the City Council authorize this opinion? Were scholars consulted for the unbiased story of Nakba? I think not. I suggest ‘the city’ Google it or listen to Jimmy Carter talk on NHPR about the plight of the Palestinian people since 1945 before calling the remembrance of human tragedy “a grave oversight.”

If the city can’t imagine the scale of the destruction in 1948, then it should look to Gaza today. Israelis are killing Arab women and children by the thousands — citizens not military soldiers. It is an atrocity in the making. And no, nobody asked the Palestinians.

Jack Shields

Penacook

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