Description
As Palestinians commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Nakba in 2018, this bulletin presents a Palestinian narrative of the history of the events preceding and surrounding the Nakba and the partition of Palestine (1947-49). It shows how Palestine became a pawn in the hands of European countries, Jewish Zionists and Arab leaders, and explains why and how the Nakba – displacement and dispossession – continues to this day with land confiscations, settlement construction, and the denial of basic rights. At the same time, it emphasizes the steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinians to this day – despite all the repressions and attempts at erasing or distorting their history and memory they face – and argues that the 1948 Nakba not only remains the root cause of both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of the gross injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people, but will continue to fuel the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination.
