Thank you for sharing this article. I have met Jews originally from Lebanon who all speak very fondly about their earlier lives their. As with Jews from many countries in the Middle East, they feel sad they cannot return even to visit but have accepted the situation and built new lives elsewhere.

Jews and Arabs lived in peace for hundreds of years until the Zionists came to Palestine as occupiers, and Palestine was promised to the Jews by the British in 1917. I remember even in the early sixties my father had a good friend who is a Jew and he visits with him all the time in Beirut.at the time they were just Lebanese and brothers to us.I remember that during the civil war in 1975 Muslim militias did there best to protect the Jews in Wadi Abu Jamil in Beirut.Liza was right when she said that she refused Israeli citizen ship during Israeli occupation of Beirut many did, but many others accept to go to Israel.I wish liza the best.

Interesting to hear Israel referred to as "The Zionists" so often. Is this a derogatory term?

Did these settlers come to occupy or conquer...? Not getting this whole land grab thing and why didnt "Palestine" fight for the land then? Why is it rocket time now and not everyday, all day/night since the "Occupation"?

My wager is, back then, there were no war rules. I doubt if the equivalent to rocket attacks back then would be met with anything but genocide.

Imagine if Attila the Hun was in charge of the protection of Israel!? Ha.

"Jews and Arabs lived in peace for hundreds of years until the Zionists came to Palestine"

Yeah, right, like when the Arabs massacred the Jews in Hebron in 1929, right?

"when the Arabs massacred the Jews in Hebron in 1929" is nothing to the daily massacre that Isreal is doing to the palestinians. What Isreal is doing now is similar to the Natzi Rigim. Haven't the jews learned a thing?

5.43, you obviously have no idea what happened in Hebron in 1929, no idea what life was like under the Nazis and no idea what the Israelis are doing at present

Even assuming for the sake of argument that what became Israeli Jews arrived as "occupiers", how do the actions of these "occupiers" justify the ethnic cleansing of 800,000 Jews from Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and other Middle Eastern countries, these Jews having had nothing to do with the actions of the "occupiers" in what is now Israel. If by 2:45pm's logic the reaction of the Arabs when "the Zionists came to Palestine" was justified merely because Jews are Jews, then how can anyone say that it is not justified to indirectly impose restrictions (checkpoints, restrictions on movement, etc.) on a general population when wrongdoers are living among them. And this is aside from the general point that the huge ruckus raised by supporters of "palestinians" because of the alleged forcible removal of some of them from their original homes completely ignores the fact that even MORE Jews were forcibly removed from their homes across the Middle East. Honestly, the disingenuousness and hypocrisy of the pro-"palestinian" position boggles my mind.