from Daily Sabah
As the Palestinians prepare to mark on Wednesday 76 years of their mass expulsion from their homeland, the human calamity of Israel's genocidal war on Gaza is a grim reminder of their continued struggle.
Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe. Some 700,000 Palestinians – a majority of the prewar population – fled or were driven from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel's establishment.
After the war, Israel refused to allow them to return because it would have resulted in a Palestinian majority within its borders. Instead, they became a seemingly permanent refugee community that now numbers some 6 million, with most living in slum-like urban refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In Gaza, the refugees and their descendants make up around three-quarters of the population...
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Might as well repost this gem, found a few months ago in a comment or sidechat of a vid put out by one of the usual motormouths going on about trivial daily events, unable to analyze, reason, see patterns or anything else because their knowledge of real history is so lacking.
ReplyDeleteNever Forget 15 MAY 1948 Nakba Day (Arabic: ذكرى النكبة, Dhikra an-Nakba, Memory of the Catastrophe') is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. +76-YRS;
1. Haifa Massacre 1937; 2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937; 3. Haifa Massacre 1938; 4. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939; 5. Haita Massacre 1939; 6. Haifa Massacre 1947; 7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947; 8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947; 9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947; 10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947; 11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947; 12. Jaffa Massacre 1948; 13. Deir Yassin Massacre - 1948; 14.Tantura Massacre - 1948; 15. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956; 16. Jerusalem Massacre 1967; 17. Bahro Al Baquar in 1972; 18. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982; 19 Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990; 20. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994; 21. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002; 22. Gaza Massacre 2008-09; 23. Gaza Massacre 2012; 24. Gaza Massacre 2014; 25. Gaza Massacre 2018-19; 26. Gaza Massacre 2021; 27. Gaza Genocide 2023 is still Ongoing. Don’t let anyone try to convince You it started on Oct 7/2023!;
Vid is unfortunately 65 minutes long.
ReplyDeleteMAY 24 BIG DAY.
What’s going on and where do these votes stand?
Stand for Health Freedom’s Lead Policy Analyst and Associate Director Valerie Borek breaks it all down in a new WHO video update.
In the video you will learn:
The status and legality of the WHO treaty and IHR votes.
How we got here.
What’s in the ever-shifting documents.
What states are doing about it.
How state AGs and U.S. senators are stepping up for health freedom.
https://standforhealthfreedom.com/who-update-5-13-24/
Western denial today ‘far more sinister, outraging’ than during Nakba: Ilan Pappe
ReplyDeleteAl Jazeera English
7 minutes
MAY 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnOq6JHev5A