Is the Nakba Permanent?
Nakba is Arabic for the 1948 catastrophe. where 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled and driven from their ancestral homes and lands. Today, 77 years later, the Nakba continues. This time, aided and abetted by the U.S., Israel declares it has “the most moral army in the world, which does everything to avoid harming non-combatants.” Watch Al Jazeera or read the reports from Amnesty International, B’Tselem or Gush Shalom and other human rights organizations to verify the Israeli claim. Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state and that Israel will control Gaza. Will there ever be a viable Palestinian state? The keyword is viable, not just a collection of Bantustans crisscrossed by Israeli-only roads, walls, barriers and checkpoints. What will be the fate of millions of Palestinians? Is the Nakba permanent?
Speaker
Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad is an internationally renowned historian and journalist. He is the executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and a correspondent for Globetrotter. He is the author of many books, including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and Washington Bullets: CIA, Coups, and Assassinations.
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American –
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What are we teaching our children in the U.S.A.? We are teaching them elimination of our enemy by any means necessary.