IPSC - Al Nakba - marie crawley

Marie Crawley, National Chairperson of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), speaking at a demo in Belfast on 17th May 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of Al Nakba.

'Al Nakba', which is Arabic for 'the catastrophe', marks the illegal foundation of the State of Israel on May 14th 1948. In order to facilitate this foundation, 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their lands, 531 villages, towns & cities were depopulated and destroyed, and even today some 6 million Palestinian refugees are prevented from returning to their homes, by Zionists, in direct contravention of UN Resolutions.

Everything, absolutely everything, that has happened in Palestine, every disaster, every tragedy, every death, every imprisonment, stems from this lamentable injustice.

It follows then, that every and any hope for Palestine and its people rests upon this injustice being overcome.

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