Thoughts on al Nakba: 60 years and counting...

Posted May 17th, 2008 by Naji Ali

60 years…man when you just stop to think about it…I’ve been working on issues related to Palestine now (at least full-time) since 2002 when I moved there for three years living in the Old City of Al Khalil (Hebron). I’ve spoken with many families about their expulsion of what is now called Israel.

May 15th marked 60 yeas since the “War of Independence” or al Nakba/the catastrophe. On this day I – along with other independent journalists – commemorated the 60 yeas of the Nakba with a special podcast. I encourage you to listen to the voices off those who have heard of it, lived through it, and continue on ins spite of it. Ameen

You can listen to the audio by clicking the link below or copying and pasting it.

http://ctl.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=339549

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The irony of the Naqba was

On May 17th, 2008 GustavoMustafa says:

The irony of the Naqba was that it gave rise to anti-Semiticism in the modern Muslim world, with the expulsion of Arab Jews from Morocco to Iraq.

Iran’s Jewish population is on the increase, the Islamic Republic unlike Hashemite Iraq, never formalized a legal pogrom which led to the expulsion of its Jewish inhabitants. Like other royalists loyal to the Pahlavi monarchy, Jews from Iran were compelled to leave.

Furthermore, Arab nations and Iran have no real genuine concern for the Palestinians, it is more rhetoric against a “Western client state” seen in the same fashion as the Crusader states that existed for two centuries in Palestine and Lebanon.

The Islamicization of Palestine’s national struggle for statehood has alienated some Christians, Christians of Palestinian ethnicity are a key component for any future viable nation-state to emerge in Gaza and the West Bank.