ALBAWABA - Al Nakaba. People today are remembering the catastrophe of 1948 when over 750,00 Palestinians were driven from their homes through Zionist fire arms to pave for the creation of the state of Israel on land that is not theirs.
Mapping the Nakba. A timeline of the systematic depopulation and erasure of Palestinian cities and villages in 1948. pic.twitter.com/G5E8v9yX8e
— Nadi Abusaada (@NadiSaadeh) May 10, 2022
The creation of the state of Israel was declared on 14 May 1948; this is how its seen by one on the social media:
What a horrible, arrogant hard hearted thing it is deliberately to demolish somebody's well loved, functional home and render them homeless. The creation of the State of Israel continues to be a daily disaster for the Palestinian people. https://t.co/VJ46v10xgv
— Edward Hulme ? (@hulme_edward) May 10, 2022
Another writes of a famous scientist:
Ten years before the state declared its "independence" on land stolen from the Palestinian people in 1948, Albert Einstein described the proposed creation of Israel as conflicting with "the essential nature of Judaism."
— Emma DM (@MoonRos) May 8, 2022
Another talks about the Palestinian towns and cities that existed before 1948, and specifically during the 1920s and 1930s. Palestine was highly developed society contrary to what Zionists were saying:
Old images from #Palestine
— #BDS ?? (@HanuDelic) May 5, 2022
Palestinian cities during the 1920's and 1930's, before the creation of the state of #Israel#IndependenceDay #Nakba74 pic.twitter.com/6bPtxO4Pjr
This is the 74th anniversary of Al Nakba and it is being marked under the hashtag (#Nakba74) and it being remembered in such protests as this one:
???NYC. NAKBA DAY 2022. SUNDAY MAY 15th. 1:00 PM. Meet at 72nd & 5th Ave. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Share like wildfire ??❤️?? #Nakba74 #ResistanceAndReturn #ByAnyMeansNecessary #WithinOurLifetime pic.twitter.com/La9eiF2i6P
— Within Our Lifetime (@WOLPalestine) May 7, 2022
Present day Israelis are happy at their creation of their state even so it was at the destruction of a Palestinian nation:
Lapid: Friendship was critical in Israel's creation: On November 29, 1947, "33 diplomats spoke into a microphone and said 'yes'" on a resolution that led to the establishment of the State of Israel. https://t.co/Yt51RvHIc1 JPost pic.twitter.com/FllMQzK71g
— Jewish Community (@JComm_NewsFeeds) May 5, 2022
But the heartache continues. Israel was established at the barrel of a gun. It was a terrible deed:
I didn't realise the creation of the state of Israel at the end of World War 2 dispossessing 750,000 Palestinians by warfare was a domestic political issue.
— Sean Reynolds (@sean_reynolds_) May 7, 2022
1948 generated a lot of talk on the social media. This one had this to say:
During the 1948 Palestine War in which the State of Israel was established, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs or 85% of the total population of the territory Israel captured fled or were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces.
— Mobashir khan Modassir (@jruzzbvimnr) May 10, 2022
Israeli historians - so called neo-historians - began in subsequent years begun to examine and analyze the view put forwards by Jewish establish views that Israel didn't force Palestinians to leave; they merely said Arab leaders told them to get out of their homes. But such a theory is debunked by Illan Pappe, an Israeli professor who explains extensively what happened:
I don’t know umm there’s a whole books describing the genocide how During the 1948 Palestine war, around 720,000 Palestinian Arabs out of the 900,000 who lived in the territories that became Israel fled or were expelled from their homes pic.twitter.com/qy3VtMmcAY
— 月牙 ✍? OGOTEMMELI (@Kambojambo) February 6, 2022
He created much debate and further research by Benny Morris and Avi Shlaim who question the whole Israeli narrative. 1948 was followed by more Israeli expulsions of Palestinians as was the case after 1967. One posted this:
Approximately 145,000 of the 1967 Palestinian refugees were refugees from the 1948 Palestine War. By December 1967, 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip further into Jordan, 11,000 had fled from the Gaza Strip further into Egypt...
— CopyCat (@AricLeed) May 5, 2022
