[Photo by Al-Jazeera/Reuters]
Where is home without a homeland?
What Is the Nakba of May 15, 1948
It was a Saturday, a day off for most of us — a day to relax. Saturday is also the Sabbath Day in Judaism, a holy day of absolute rest. But for Zionism it was the official start to Isr–l’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinians.
Midnight of May 15, 1948 is when the British Mandate for Palestine officially ended, and The Apartheid Regime illegally declared itself an established state. As a response to this Catastrophe, the nations of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia joined forces under an Egyptian command. This Arab coalition sent their armies to defend the Palestinians from the massive onslaught. However, those forces were defeated in 1949 by Isr–li terrorists who’d later form the IOF.
Between 1947 and 1949, The Apartheid Regime murdered over 15,000 Palestinians and uprooted more than 750,000 of the indigenous population. The surviving Palestinians were scattered across the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and neighboring Arab countries.
Deadly Nakba Massacres before that Day
War crimes against Palestine didn’t start on May 15th, 1948. Anti-Palestinian violence was occurring over the prior few decades from Zionist death squads such as Haganah, Irgun, Lehi, and The Stern Gang. Before the commemorated Nakba date, The Apartheid Regime had British military support for their settler-colonial state…nice to see the OG colonizers offering a helping hand.
When the Palestinians resisted in 1936, as is their legal right, the British responded by eradicating at least 2,000 Palestinian homes and confining 9,000 Palestinians to concentration camps. These camps included the usual violence and torture at the hands of British authorities. Not surprising as this typical behavior from Liberal Western Democracies towards other cultures.
One of the most infamous bloodbaths is The Deir Yassin Massacre which occurred on April 9, 1948. This was a Friday, a holy day for Muslims…seems like The Apartheid Regime loves to commit atrocities on days like this.
Both Irgun and The Stern Gang entered the Deir Yassin village, located on a hill west of Jerusalem, and murdered at least 107 Palestinians — including children, women, and the elderly. Not only were the victims lined up against a wall and shot full of holes with submachine guns, but some were tried to tires and burned to death.
Those Zionist death squads would become the precursor to the IOF.
Palestinian Nakba Day
The horrors of May 15th are commemorated every year by the Palestinians, and its known as Nakba Day. Families recount the heinous acts committed against them and their loved, grandparents tell their grandchildren the type of barbarity they experienced from The Apartheid Regime. It’s an absolute day of mourning for Palestinians while Zionism revels in the catastrophes it caused before, during, and after the Nakba.
“My father was from Lifta, next to Deir Yassin”—the site of one of the most infamous massacres of the Nakba—“and that’s where my paternal grandmother was born,” [Yousef Kassim] says. “News spread quick to the neighboring villages, news of the murders and rapes.” Village residents were not in a position to fend off the gangs. Kassim’s grandfather rented houses to Holocaust survivors and Jewish immigrants, and after what happened to his family, was left penniless with 12 kids. Yousef Kassim’s family lived only six miles outside of Lifta but was never allowed to return. “He lived until he was 93 years old and never got to see justice.”
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The event hasn’t been forgotten in the world’s history though, as the UN General Assembly officially requested this tragic event be officially recognized in 2022. The first official Nakba Day ceremony was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, on May 15, 2023.
The Palestinian Refugees’ Right of Return
The Palestinian people have never stopped fighting back, and have been granted The Right of Return according to International Law. This is the right granted to all refugees and exiles to return to their homeland. It’s not specifically applied to Palestinians, but for all refugees including those in El Salvador, Bosnia, and Ethiopia.
Of course neither The Apartheid Regime nor its Zionist allies will assist in enabling these human rights, and have blocked multiple attempts. Not only can native Palestinians not come back to their indigenous homeland, but Jewish citizens from anywhere in the world, including converts, are automatically granted citizenship by The Apartheid Regime.
The Second Nakba and Another Catastrophe
The IOF response to Operation Al Aqsa Flood has been called a Second Nakba — these are the words of Palestinians and The Apartheid Regime’s Agriculture Minister, Avi Dichter!
“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba,” Isr–li security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter declared on Saturday. “Gaza Nakba 2023. That’s how it’ll end.”
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Legacy Media is also helping to accelerate The Gaza Nakba by referring to the ongoing genocide as a “war” or stating the IOF is “fighting Hamas.” The journalists stenographers working for those US State Department outlets may not be participating in the torture, rape, and murder (much to their chagrin), but are happy to justify any act of violence towards the Palestinian people.
