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Title: Palestinians Worldwide Commemorate Nakba Day
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Published: May 15, 2016
Author: Stephen Lendman
Post Date: 2016-05-15 12:17:20 by Stephen Lendman
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Palestinians Worldwide Commemorate Nakba Day by Stephen Lendman May 15 marks its 68th anniversary. Israeli historian Ilan Pappe documented the horror in his book titled “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” One of history’s great crimes was committed. Israel’s war without mercy depopulated Palestinian villages and cities. It massacred innocent victims, committed rapes and other atrocities. Its forces burned, bulldozed, blew up or stole homes, property and goods. To this day, Israel prevents diaspora Palestinians from returning home, despite international law supporting their right. About 800,000 were displaced or slaughtered. Genocidal ethnic cleansing destroyed 531 villages and 11 urban neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and other cities. The late Edward Said called what happened Palestine’s “holocaust,” explaining its people are as powerless and abused as Jews were under Hitler. They continue enduring what he called “a slow death,” their lives shattered by Israeli viciousness - denied all rights, collectively punished, murdered in cold blood, arrested and imprisoned solely for political reasons. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) called the Nakba “a catastrophe born of discrimination and impunity.” A shocking two-thirds of Palestinians worldwide are internally or externally displaced. Besieged Gazans endure “inhuman conditions with no end to their displacement (and suffering) in sight.” Untenable conditions exist throughout the Territories. On Nakba day, Israeli forces rampaged through multiple West Bank Palestinian communities, terrorizing families, traumatizing children, kidnapping innocent victims. Tear gas and stun grenades were used indiscriminately. Olive trees were set ablaze and destroyed. Kafr Qaddum village coordinator Murad Shtewi said soldiers created “a cloud of poisonous gas.” Civil defense vehicles were prevented from entering areas set ablaze, forcing firefighters to walk up a hill to battle it. Punitive overnight raids came as Palestinians commemorated Nakba Day. PLO official Hanan Ashrawi issued a press release titled “The Nakba Continues,” saying: “Since 1948, Israel has employed deliberate and systematic acts of violence, colonialism, and destruction at the expense of the Palestinian people, their rights, lands, and resources.” Occupation since June 1967 is nearly half a century in duration with no end of human misery in sight. The world community continues turning a blind eye to the suffering of millions of Palestinians - ruthlessly persecuted by Israeli viciousness. Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III." http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.
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#1. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)
The Israelis tried to kill Yasser Arafat when he was in Tunis, but they couldn't do it. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
NPR actually gave about 46 seconds to this today -- I almost fell over backwards, till I remembered they'll always give a minute to the truth so they can claim they give you "BOTH SIDES." On AM radio when I got home was playing an argument between an enthusiastic Free State Project guy and a former Floridian who was saying he was deeply unhappy with his FSP move to NH. The FSP guy urged us to check out www.101reasonsfilm.com . (Now he looks like one of the apes he prolly thinks we're descended from :-) Ted Crudz: The Mask of Sincerity
#2. To: Stephen Lendman (#0)
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