Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering - by Stephen Lendman
On May 14, Israelis will commemorate the 60th anniversary of their "War of Independence" and founding of the Jewish State. It also marks 60 years of Palestinian Nakba suffering. The web site alnakba.org recounts the history:
-- from the late Ottoman empire period; to
-- the birth of Zionism; to
-- the early Jewish colonization of Palestine; to
-- the 1917 Balfour Declaration support for a "Jewish national home in Palestine;" to
-- the simultaneous British betrayal of the indigenous Arabs; to
-- the British occupation; to
-- its delayed promised end; to
-- the founding of the Haganah underground military organization; to
-- the first British (1922) Palestine census showing a population of 757,182 - 78% Muslim, 11% Jewish and 9.6% Christian; to
-- the official 1923 establishment of the British Mandate period; to
-- the 1920s Jewish population increase to 16% on 4% of Palestinian land; to
-- the terrorist Irgun (IZT) National Military Organization established in 1931; to
-- the terrorist Stern Gang founded in 1939; to
-- the 1945 Jewish population growth to 31% of the total; to
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