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Items by Dr Firoz Osman
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Nakba Day is when Palestinians remember the catastrophe of their land being stolen
On 15 May, 1948, the creation of the state of Israel was announced in Tel Aviv. That day is commemorated every year as Nakba Day by the people of occupied Palestine. The “Catastrophe” to which Nakba refers is that in order to create the state, almost 800,000 Palestinians were killed,…
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Palestine’s heroic resistance signals the failure of Zionism
The heroic resistance by Palestinian youth at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is a clear affirmation of the failure of the Zionist project to colonise the land of Palestine and empty it of its indigenous people. The Polish-born first prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, stated in 1948: “We must do…