Nakba

Nakba (catastrophe)is how the Palestinian people refer to the theft of their homeland by Zionists who later went on to form the state of Israel.

Hear how a Palestinian refugee who grew up in a camp in Lebanon thinks about the Nakba

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News & Politics

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• Lebanon
• Palestine
• Israel
• War
• Peace
• Islam

[sulio257]

Poor Palestine...

[MaoTzu]

Yes it just goes to show you what happens when western powers get involved where they do not belong.

Free Free Palestine!

[huler8]

I'm an Israeli and the more I learn about your tragedy the more I acknowledge the evel that fell upon the Palestinian people. I wish we could reconcile one day

[samy1412]

you won what! you need to realize that you need to make peace with the palestinians! if you dont they will outnumber you eventually! you are stuck inbetween 300 million arabs, you should stop acting like twats! give peace a chance its the only way to save Israel. bombs wont get you anywhere!

[JohnnyRock2000]

@avikau You use the word contol as if it grants entitlement. Can we now look at the entire world in those terms and simply take what is not under some kind of bureaucratic control. Just claim "uncontrolled" land as our own, toss out the inhabitants and do what we wish?

[avikau]

Ask any Palestinian about the ‘Nakba’. This new expression has become part of the glue to the Palestinian narrative. The Nakba, or disaster, is how the Arab world refers to the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel on 15th May, 1948. It only found expression in recent years as a rewriting of a false Palestinian history. It is a historic mistake that must be rectified. It is as if they controlled the land before 1948 and deserve to have it back. Untrue!

[Atheistx82]

@MrMember3 The personal opinions of politicians is kind of beside the point, there have been repeated peace offers over the past twenty years. Clinton spent weeks trying to get Palestine to accept a deal, but Palestine has to recognize Israel's borders and legitimacy as a Nation which has yet to happen. Palestine needs to get Iran out of it's affairs and reign in Hamas, because they don't care about the Palestinian people anyway they're just tools to them.

[MrMember3]

@Atheistx82

I read an article on how the Israeli leader is negative to the idea of an independent Palestine, makes you wonder if Israel is even on board.

But yes I agree about the fact that Palestine has to get rid of the radicalism.

But still I doubt Israel will be as cooperative as it should be to gain total peace.

[MrMember3]

@Atheistx82

I don't think it's fair labeling all Palestinians. Gaza has around 400,000 citizens with 2000-3000 hamas militants. I've heard tons of stories from Palestinians who want nothing but peace.

But I can't see any peace between the two until Israel allows Palestine to become it's own independent state, pulls out all settlers and soldiers from Palestinian territories and promises to stop meddling in.

30,000 ppl lost their jobs due to Israeli laws. That's how hamas militants come to be.

[Atheistx82]

@selfyeshua Listen kid you can quote wing nuts til you're blue in the face but peace has been offered to Palestine time and time again, Palestine refuses to accept anything short of the absolute destruction of Israel. This isn't about Arabs, a lot of Israeli citizens are Arab. Yeah some people are prejudiced but most Israelis aren't.

[selfyeshua]

31/3/1977 Dutch newspaper interview Plo member Zahir Muhsein:"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

[selfyeshua]

31/3/1977 Dutch newspaper interview Plo member Zahir Muhsein:"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means of struggle against the Israel for our Arab unity. In reality there is no difference between Jordanians,Palestinians,Syrian­s and Lebanese.Only for political reasons we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism"