Today is Nakba Day, the day of remembrance of the catastrophe that befell Palestinians during the aggression-based and unlawful establishment of the Jewish State of Israel 65 years ago. Over 700,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages, and many massacred, in an ethnic-cleansing operation that should shock the conscience. The Arabs who remained in the Israeli state that was imposed on them by Zionist military forces have been second-class citizens from that time. Don't expect much notice of this in the mass media.
The best short introduction to this shameful series of events is Jeremy Hammond's The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination. See also Hammond's "The Myth of the UN Creation of Israel."
Other good reading on this matter: David Hirst's The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Gilad Atzmon's The Wandering Who? A Study of Jewish Identity Politics, and Jack Ross's Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism.
UPDATE: This has just come to my attention (HT: Mondoweiss): Amjad Alqasis's "The Ongoing Nakba: The continuous forcible displacement of the Palestinian people."
You wouldn't expect much notice of this in the mass media because it is a lie.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the world continues to deny the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Arab world. In fact the Arab world today has almost no Jews left while Israel is full of Arab citizens. Who are the real ethnic cleansers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH8RL2XRr48
Right, lie.
ReplyDeleteAbout that "ethnic cleansing" of Jews, see this.
Anon, what was and still is the catalyst for extreme antisemitism in the Arab world? Are we to assume they just got fed up after 500 or so years?
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