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2023-05-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas signs decree criminalizing ‘Nakba’ denial

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-31 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [15 views ] Top
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#1 Nakba is a term first associated with Constantine Zarayk, history professor, American University of Beirut, who used the term shortly following the Arab defeat of 1948 in his book Maana el Nakbet (Lesson of the Disaster). Many thought the term ephemeral. It was not.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-31 08:01|| 2023-05-31 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 This does't appear to be much than different then the Brits and Irish! So it should only take another 122 years to settle the problem. The major difference is that the Brits and English are both civilized.

Posted by Old Salty 2023-05-31 18:34|| 2023-05-31 18:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Brits and Irish

Posted by Old Salty 2023-05-31 18:35|| 2023-05-31 18:35|| Front Page Top

#4 It need not have been a disaster, had they chosen to figure out a way to live with their neighbours instead of clinging to the illusion that the rest of the Arab world regarded them as brothers deserving rescue rather than despising them as tools.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-31 23:50|| 2023-05-31 23:50|| Front Page Top

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