"Compared to the horrors of Rwanda or even Guatemala, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict does not actually represent that much outright crime against humanity for the parties to reconcile themselves to. It was a war but it was nothing like Korea or Vietnam or even the recent Balkan wars, for example. If not for religion and foreign involvement, it would be a relatively small war in world terms. I think it should not be fetishized."
In 1948, there were about 1 mill Palestinians living in Palestine. Then 75% of them were gone -- having lost everything they own, many having to spend the next 3 generations in refugee camps. WHY? for having done WHAT? This is not bad compared to....what's the point of the comparison?
You can always find something more horrible to compare something to. But one of the diffs between Rwanda...Guatemala... etc is that the perpetrators of the horrors there do not parade around the world presenting themselves as the only democratic state in Africa....South America, ....
Joanna