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"Is this the Zionist goal for which hundreds of thousands have died." It began during Israel's war without mercy. Genocidal ethnic cleansing reflected official Israeli policy. Cities and villages were depopulated. Jewish ones replaced them.
About 800,000 Palestinians were dispossessed or massacred. Rapes and other atrocities were committed. No one was allowed to return. Decades of occupation followed. So does institutionalized persecution.
Life in occupied Palestine includes economic strangulation, poverty, unemployment, collective punishment, loss of fundamental freedoms, targeted assassinations, punitive taxes, stolen land and resources, Gazans suffocating under siege, separation walls, electric fences and border closings, curfews, roadblocks and checkpoints, bulldozed homes and crops, as well as arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, torture, and other ill-treatment.
On May 15, Palestinians commemorate Nakba day. It reflects one of history's great crimes. It continues daily.
Israel's Nakba Law prohibits commemorating it. Penalties are imposed for doing so. Erasing this horrific event from Israeli consciousness is policy.
It remains etched in collective Palestinians' memories. It represents decades of horrific suffering. No words adequately explain. Few Israeli Jews understand or remember. Palestinians lost their lives, land and futures.
Israel never accepted responsibility. Jewish suffering alone matters. Nakba's memory remains. Israeli law and ruthlessness won't erase it. Not now. Not ever.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at Email address removed .
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