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To the editor : In December 1968, while walking through the Old City of Jerusalem, I saw a Jerusalem Post headline that has stayed with me ever since: “The Persecuted Have Become the Persecutors,” written by a rabbi. I was a teenager then, and that stark truth pierced me.

I am Palestinian, born in Lebanon after my parents fled their homeland. My aunts, uncles and grandparents scattered across Jordan and Egypt, displaced by war and fear. That headline echoed the pain of my family’s story — and today, it echoes again.

Reading the Los Angeles Times’ recent article about experts accusing Israel of genocide ( “U.N. commission of inquiry accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza,” Sept. 16

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