How 'Nakba' Proves There's No Palestinian Nation

Terrorism Awareness ^ | Steven Plaut

[citizenredstater9271]

Over the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby. Meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, it has been embraced by anti-Semites all over the planet to refer to Israel’s creation, which supposedly imposed a “catastrophe” upon the “disenfranchised Palestinian Arabs.”

Of course, the real catastrophe that befell the Arabs in 1948-49 was that they failed in their attempt to annihilate Israel and exterminate its population, and for that they paid a price.

Meanwhile, Nakba Nonsense has been spreading. Google finds over 85,000 web pages referring to Israel’s creation as a “nakba,” and a Yahoo search finds even more than that. The anti-Israel web magazine Counterpunch cannot mention Israel without using the term. Even Israel’s leftist minister of education, Yuli Tamir, has orderedthat the nakba be taught as partof the curriculum in Israeli schools, where Israel’s schoolchildren can be taught to mourn their own country’s existence.

(Tamir, who was previously a professor of education at Tel Aviv University, is so bizarre that in the summer of 1996 she published an article in the Boston Review defending female circumcision in the Third World and denouncing those who expressed disgust at the practice – see http://bostonreview.net/BR21.3/Tamir.html.)

Nakba ceremonies are now held each year by leftist professors at Israeli universities who mourn the very creation and existence of their country.

The nakba of the late 1940’s and 1950’s that befell large numbers of Jews living in Arab countries who were suddenly expelled, persecuted, and stripped of their property does not interest such people. Those Jewish refugees made new homes in Israel and actually outnumbered the Palestinians who fled.

[ChicagoHebrew]

Arthur Koestler wrote the Thirteenth Tribe in 1976, long before the genetic evidence came in. It was the genetic evidence that sealed the deal definitively against his theory.

Shlomo Sand is a self-hating Jew who quit Israel's Communist party because it wasn't radically anti-Zionist enough for him. He is still an admitted Communist and a Marxist historian. He is also a crackpot. His answer to the genetic evidence is, essentially "Hitler would have liked the genetic evidence, so it must be wrong." The only people who take him seriously are Jew-haters.

Now, here's a question. Will you admit you are wrong? Or will you cast your oars with crackpots and Jew-haters over the considerable genetic, linguistic and historical evidence? And if you will, that pretty much says a lot about you.

[ikka]

Are you referring to this article which discusses the 2010 era genetic tests? (The published article is linked in the following URL):

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/06/tracing-the-roots-of-jewishness.html

[petercooper]

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