I woke up this morning and looked at my Calendar that read 15 May and I knew it was a bad day. I usually have had better memories on this day in the last few years, but for the goodness of me I didn't know what today signified.
Thanks to Dubai Jazz, I remembered. I just read this post on this blog which is copied here in its entirety:
15th of May - 62 Years on the Nakba: A Few Memorable Quotes
"The cleansing of Palestine remained the prime objective of Plan Dalet."
David Ben Gurion (the 'Founding Father' of Israel)
(Plan Dalet was a premeditated plan designed in part to ethnically cleanse Palestine during the establishment of the state of Israel)
"Only a state with at least 80% Jews is a viable and stable state"
David Ben Gurion
"Arab evacuees from the towns and villages left largely because of Jewish — Haganah, IZL or LHI — attacks or fear of impending attack.......[however],an extremely small, almost insignificant number of the refugees during this early period left because of Haganah or IZL or LHI expulsion orders or forceful 'advice' to that effect"
Benn Morris. Author of "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited", Cambridge University Press, 2004.
"This leads to a figure of 73% for departures caused directly by the Israelis. In addition, the report attributes 22% of the departures to "fears" and "a crisis of confidence" affecting the Palestinian population. As for Arab calls for flight, these were reckoned to be significant in only 5% of cases…"
A report by the military intelligence arm of the Haganah (the Jewish paramilitary force), which refutes the claim that the +750,000 Palestinians left Palestine of their own volition.
"Allon repeated the question: What is to be done with the population[50,000 Palestinian inhabitants of Lyd and Ramllah]? Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture that said: Drive them out!"
The Memoir of Yitzhak Rabin "Soldier of Peace"
"I'm a Zionist!"
Joe Biden, VPOTUS.
"The Middle East is obviously an issue that had plagued the region for centuries"
Barack Hussein Obama, POTUS.
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"The viciousness of Israel is testament to its knowing that Palestinians will always remain steadfast and defeat its past and present attempts to erase them"
Joseph Massad (Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics at Columbia University)
"Revolt! you're only going to lose the tent and the shackle"
George Habash (the late Palestinian leader)
"All that you have done to our people is registered in notebooks"
Mahmoud Darwish (A renowned Palestinian poet)
"When a brown man resists, he's a terrorist. When a white man resists, he's Robin Hood"
Dubai Jazz
"It must have sucked to be an Arab in 1948/49"
A Zionist, arguing the Nakba with Dubai Jazz on some political forum.
"So, going by your logic, it must have also sucked to be a Jew in Europe circa early 1940s?"
Dubai Jazz, replying to the said Zionist.
http://dubai-jazz.blogspot.com/2010/05/15th-of-may-62-years-on-nakba-few.html
An excellent source of maps:
http://joshberer.wordpress.com/maps/middle-east/
