Posted on 05/08/2008 12:11:22 PM PDT by Alouette
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.
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Sounds familiar!
In March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein who said, "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism."Is anyone listening?!
Sounds familiar!
Just goes to prove that a liberal is still a friggin moron no matter what part f the world their from!
Thanks for posting this!
Even Israel's leftist minister of education, Yuli Tamir, has ordered that the nakba be taught as part of the curriculum in Israeli schools, where Israel's schoolchildren can be taught to mourn their own country's existence.
Sounds familiar!
I was thinking the very same thing!
Israel and the USA, the two evil entities responsible for all the problems in a world otherwise made up of peaceful little indigenous nations that just sprouted out of their native soil and knew not the curses of oppression, war, Coca-Cola imperialism!
There appear to be two kinds of Leftists: the self-hating Western type & the tribal, self-worshipping type. Israel, unfortunately, got the self-hating type.
No, they are the self-worshipping type. It's all those other Jews they hate!
I hear ya but there is a faction of Jews infesting Israel & Jewry worldwide that seems to really hate the fact that they were born Jewish & take it out on the rest of us. The other day I finished a book in English called Jewish Self-Hatred that documented this mentality & it made me sick. I grew up in Lebanon among Shi’i Hezbullah supporters & members, & not once was I ever ashamed of being Jewish or even considered hiding it. What excuse do they have? These people are sick & damaged Jews.
Dude! I've been saying that for a zillion years! Literally!
Non-Western leftwingers are an awful lot like Western rightwingers, aren't they?
Right on, forkinsocket!
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