The truth is, I didn’t count how many times various Israeli politicians and article writers used the term “Jewish compassion” as they dealt with the question of the Syrian refugees. There were those who supported bringing some of them to the Jewish-democratic state, while others categorically rejected the notion.

This argument raises some questions regarding that same Jewish compassion. For those whose memories are short or selective, it’s important for us to stress once again that the Zionist movement, which established the State of Israel with the help of British imperialists, committed one of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century. The Palestinian Arab people were forcibly expelled from their homeland in the Nakba (catastrophe) of 1948, and became refugees in neighboring Arab countries.

To this day Israel refuses to take responsibility for what it did to my people, and it will continue to stick to this strategy, because, as the late Shulamit Aloni once said, so long as the Jews feel like the ultimate victims, they won’t sign a peace agreement with the Arabs in general, or the Palestinians in particular.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as expected, totally rejected the idea of taking in Syrian refugees, but took pains to remind everyone that Israel has treated more than a thousand wounded Syrians.

By contrast, Meretz chairman MK Zehava Galon, appearing Sunday on the Channel 2 program “6 O’Clock With Oded Ben-Ami,” announced that she is in favor of absorbing Syrian refugees, but in the same breath added that she is against returning Palestinian refugees to their homeland. Just for your information, Ms. Galon, for us, the Palestinian Arab nation, returning is a thousand times more important that the tiny state that Israel, in its great generosity, is offering Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has become obsolete and irrelevant and barely represents himself and the gang of Oslo criminals around him.

Yes, Galon, your country, which is my homeland, has violated more than 60 resolutions passed by the United Nations, first and foremost Resolution 194, which states unequivocally that there’s an obligation – yes, an obligation – to return the Palestinian refugees to their homeland from which they were expelled in 1948. What’s more, there is no statute of limitations on this right of return. It would thus behoove you not to feed us lies and half-truths regarding the Syrian refugees.

Europe, which participated in the international plot to overthrow the national and nationalist regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and allowed arch-terrorists to enter this Arab state to help overthrow him, is now paying the price; that plan, as of now, has failed, and the refugees are the boomerang that Europe must now contend with and resolve. The European countries were a dominant factor in causing the refugee problem, and the criminal must pay his debt to humanity.

In conclusion, Israel is the last country permitted to speak about helping the refugees. In October, in the village of Tarshiha, there will be a ceremony commemorating the falling of the village into the hands of Zionist militias. The ceremony, which has become a tradition, is held to prove that if the Israelis think that “the elderly will die, and the little ones will forget,” they are mistaken. We will neither forgive nor forget until the last of the refugees return to Palestine, their homeland.

The writer is a Palestinian Arab journalist.

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Due to an editing error, this article previously contained an unsubstantiated claim that Israel receives payment from Gulf States for treating wounded Syrian nationals.