The narrative that we have been given all this time has been the one that has been created and promoted by one side only, that of the Zionist leadership and the government of Israel. It is not an omission to correct the distortions and inaccuracies in that narrative without also reiterating those parts that are accurate. We already know the narrative from the perspective of the Zionist leadership and the government of Israel. It is time also to know the narrative from the perspective of what was experienced by the Palestinians as well as Israel's neighbors.

There is nothing wrong with pointing out where and in what way the narrative given us so far is wrong. If there is ever to be peace (rather than a desolation people call peace), those aspects of history that have been distorted and falsified need to be corrected.

Take the lie about the Arab countries telling the local non-Jewish Palestinians to leave until they could clear out the Jews. That lie is no less harmful to human beings than the lie of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It is also no less hateful and racist. It is important to correct these lies, so that they can no longer be used to continue to promote hatred and discrimination.

The government of Israel uses these lies and distortions to justify its continued acts of aggression and its continued oppression of the Palestinians. The only way to make this stop is to correct this falsified version of history.