As Palestinians in Gaza are being handed a golden ticket—the opportunity to escape the war zone their own leaders created—the world suddenly finds its moral outrage.
For decades, Palestinian activists and their Western enablers have pushed the narrative that resettling Gazans is an unthinkable crime. The irony? Hundreds of thousands of Jews, including my own family, were expelled from Arab lands, and no one lifted a finger to help. There were no global protests, no calls about a “right of return,” no international aid agencies keeping us in permanent refugee limbo. We weren’t given the luxury of relocation; we were forced to rebuild from nothing.
Now, as Gazans are being handed a golden ticket—the opportunity to escape the war zone their own leaders created—the world suddenly finds its moral outrage. They don’t deserve this chance, but Israel, the Middle East and the world deserve this chance at peace. This isn’t nakba 2.0 (Arabic for the “catastrophe” that is the modern-day State of Israel). It is a long-overdue correction.
A recent comparison between Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands and Gazans today isn’t only inaccurate but obscene. Jewish refugees didn’t wage war on their host countries. They didn’t launch terror attacks, form death squads or strap explosives to their bodies. They didn’t raise generations to glorify suicide bombings and mass murder as a path to paradise.