Al Nakba - the Destruction of Palestine, the Creation of Israel

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I highly recommend the website
https://www.palestineremembered.com/

It is about the terrible time about 60 years ago when 400 Palestinian villages were destroyed in order to make room for Israel. That historical incident is what Palestinians refer to as "Al Nakba" - their term for a horrific event.

In the United States, the creation of Israel was commemorated this year - a 60th anniversary. I didn't hear anybody say anything about Al Nakba.

The website Palestine Remembered has an overwhelming amount of information on the subject.

["Mad" Miles]

[quote=Hot Compost;77735]I didn't hear anybody say anything about Al Nakba.quote]

Thanks for this Hot Compost,

I, and others in the Palestinian Human Rights community, did hear (i.e. read) about the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba. Particularly from Middle East Childrens Alliance (https://www.mecaforpeace.org/)and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (https://endtheoccupation.org/) both of whose email lists I am on.


And before anyone accuses me of being anti-semitic (a common tactic in response to anyone defending the rights of Palestinian Arabs, look what they did to Jimmy Carter when he spoke up with common sense) I am not.

I am opposed to the claims of any Zionist, or the views of any other uncritical partisan defender of Israeli policy towards the Palestinian Arab people, who downplays or denies the crimes done in the name of Israel, before, during and after its founding and continuing to this day.

I support the right of Israel to exist. But I also support the right of an Arab Palestine to exist (with the Right of Return and its capital in Jerusalem [probably East]).

And you don't have to be Semitic to be a Zionist, just as you don't have to be Jewish to be Semitic.

And yes, of course, Palestinians have committed horrible crimes in defense of themselves. Yet always from a position of weakness and desperation.

One of the greatest tragedies about Israel is that a people who were subjected to the Holocaust,

(arguably the greatest genocide in human history, although American Indians, Black Africans and others have cause to beg to differ, but certainly the greatest modern carefully planned and conscious genocide in the last century, but well then there's Soviet Russia and Communist China to account for, but I digress)

have used that horror to justify their own right to visit oppression and destruction on others even weaker than themselves. All in the name of self-defense.

Comparing suffering and engaging in one up-man-ship about who has suffered more is a useless exercise. Suffering is suffering. It's all bad.

Israel/Palestine is a huge topic. One of the third rails of US politics. Anyone not educated on this issue should become so. There's plenty out there to choose from.

Here's a start (https://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mideast/palestine/links.html).

For Peace and National Sovereignty for All (who want it...),

"Mad" Miles

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