"The #Nakba is a structure, not an event. Its authors openly admit its aims" explains Dr. #ArdiImseis, professor of #InternationalLaw, Queen's University, Canada
"To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba memoricide by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in #Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner
"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
Itay Epshtain: Today, #Palestinians, and those supporting them through decades of plight, will be commemorating #NakbaDay (يوم النكبة); and while the disenfranchisement of Palestinians is a constant, professional pursuit of mine, it also has a more personal facet.
I grew up and currently reside in Yavne, where until June of 1948 stood the village of #Yibna (يبنا). The 6,000 people of Yibna were deported (predominantly to #Gaza), most of their homes destroyed.
"The strategy is clear: ensure through daily acts of violence that Palestinians remain haunted by the Nakba, lest they forget what Israel is capable of doing. At the same time, however, the state makes every effort to bar Palestinians from determining how they remember this history in public lest they use forms of commemoration to incite people against colonial rule" #Nakba#NakbaDay#Israel#Palestine