On the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, here's a story (and a documentary) of "generational displacement, genocide, and the inevitability of Return"
"We have been robbed of our land, deprived of our identity and history; even our future has been stolen. The Zionist response to these atrocities is that the Palestinians should not have existed in the first place. Zionism wants us to be forgotten forever."
Western denial today is far more sinister, outraging than during the 1948 Nakba.
It is a main reason why civil societies are led now by brave students who know exactly what goes on & do all they can to stop it.
The attitude displayed by European politicians will come back to bite them because they are not representing their electorates when it comes to Palestine.
Today we mark 76 years since the #Nakba, or catastrophe, when over 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes and countless villages were wiped off the map during the establishment of the State of Israel. The Israeli government has continued the Nakba by carrying out a policy of land expropriation and deprivation of Palestinians’ fundamental rights from 1948 through today. (1/4)
Remembering the ethnic cleansing, massacres and Zionist terrorism that lead to the creation of #Israel which remains to this day a pariah state and a plague on the Middle East and the world.
Palästinenser erinnern zum Nakba-Tag an Flucht und Vertreibung
Zum Nakba-Tag haben Palästinenser im Westjordanland der Flucht und Vertreibung während des ersten Nahost-Kriegs 1948 gedacht. Bei Zusammenstößen wurde dabei ein Mann getötet. Die EU rief Israel auf, den Militäreinsatz in Rafah zu beenden.
"The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [..] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [..] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner
Ce matin, Rouen s'est réveillé avec un bel escalier aux couleurs de la Palestine 🇵🇸...
Pour commémorer, en ce 15 mai, la Nakba de 1948
et alerter sur le génocide en cours
Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.
Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)
"Palestinians say they face a second Nakba, but this time they are alone"
"Palestinians have been marking 76 years since the Nakba – the forced displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
"Back then, all Arab countries were united against Israel.... Nowadays [Arab armies] have no say. Everyone is on their own. Everyone wants [to preserve] their own interests."
"Palestinian life under Israeli occupation – An illustrated guide"
"Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 by Zionist militias.
"In the 76 years since the Nakba, Israel’s control over the Palestinian people has affected every aspect of life, from services they can access & where they can travel, to what resources they can use & where on their own land they can build homes."
"Israel’s actions today are even more violent than during the Nakba in 1948. There is a civilian population being killed with the most sophisticated American weapons, day & night. Minute by minute.”
"During the first Nakba, 13,000 Palestinians died over three years. Since October 2023, more than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza."
#Gaza#Nakba To mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, Al Jazeera have produced an excellent illustrated guide to what daily life under occupation is like for Palestinians.
Palästinenser gedenken am 15. Mai der Flucht und Vertreibung von 1948. In den Palästinenserlagern des Libanon gehört die Nakba nicht der Vergangenheit an. Gaza holt die palästinensische Ur-Katastrophe in die Gegenwart zurück. Von Martin Durm.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
What’s astonishing is that a war that was embarked on so willingly, with so much unanimity, and with so much excitement could be later remembered as a story of pure #victimhood 🔥🔥🔥
Yet before the war was even fully over, Constantin #Zureiq published a passionate #lament of the #Arab failure to defeat #Israel, The Meaning of the Disaster [#Nakba], giving birth to the word that would be used from as a shorthand for the traumatic #Arab defeat in that war.
As time passed, memories of that defeat evolved and the #Nakba became not an #Arab event but a #Palestinian one, and not a humiliating defeat—“seven Arab states declare war on #Zionism in #Palestine [and] stop impotent before it” is how it is described on the first page of #Zureiq’s book—but rather the story of shame and #forcedDisplacement.
Palestinians living in Israel hold Palestinian flags as they take part in the annual Return March to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe of their mass dispossession in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, near Haifa, in northern Israel. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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“In the tripartite aggression, they executed civilians in the streets and in ’67 they occupied the Gaza Strip … but not at this level and there was no repeated displacement.”
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Fatima Hussein, an 87-year-old Palestinian woman, says Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza brings back memories of being displaced from her village in the Nakba 76 years ago.
“In ’48 I carried my nephew and today my son and grandchildren carried me. And in ’48 I ran away on foot and today I ran away by bus with only a few clothes.”
WEEK 33: Members of the public in Brighton stop to write the names of murdered Gazan children on hundreds of ribbons, in preparation for a Nakba march on Sunday, as part of the local "Know Their Names" project.