Al-Ahram Weekly | 1948-2002 -- THE NAKBAH CONTINUES:

1948-2002 -- THE NAKBAH CONTINUES:

Soon after taking office with a pledge to crush the Palestinian Intifada within 100 days Ariel Sharon gave an interview to the Israeli daily Haaretz in which he expressed his belief that Israel's "War of Independence" was far from being over. Thus did the newly elected premier, with an easy shrug of the shoulders, explode one of Israel's founding myths: the creation of the Jewish state, rather than being the product of an anti-colonial struggle against the British mandate, as Israel had claimed for decades, was a colonial enterprise aimed at "freeing" the new Jewish homeland of its indigenous population. --read on--

Demons of the Nakbah
Israel has long denied its responsibility for the events of 1948, the Nakbah, that forced the Palestinian population from Palestine at the point of Israeli guns. However, today when recognition of the wrongs done to the Palestinians in 1948 is finally dawning, many Israeli politicians are openly advocating a new "Transfer Option", writes Ilan Pappe

Catastrophe without end
From the 1948 Nakbah to events in the occupied territories today, Israel's aims and supporting myths have been remarkably similar, writes Salman Abu Sitta -- to carry out the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by transferring the Arab population

Reflections of the '48 Generation
Returning to a letter written during the 1948 War many years later, Tikva Honig-Parnass, a member of the '48 Generation and of the Palmach Brigades, meditates on what it reveals of the Zionist mindset of the time

Killing myths
Zionist myths must be exposed before they destroy our humanity, house by house, camp by camp, city by city, writes M Shahid Alam

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 16 - 22 May 2002 Issue No.586
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