Quote from: TDoS on Mar 29, 2026, 04:19 PMQuote from: K-DogEvery year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.
The losers of wars often have different perspctives on what actually happened compared to the winners.
It would be more accurate if they marked the attempt to ethnically cleanse the Jews with the help of 5 Arab nations and BOY was sucking at war you started a mistake. No different than what the Japanese must celebrate on December 7th each year. Great victory! As opposed to each Auguust 6th or 9th.
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents.
I thought you could read. Maybe a few more articles will help. One of them might have a more appropriate vocabulary for you.
The Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
“Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe,” and is used to describe the murder, dispossession and forced displacement Palestinians suffered in the years up to and including 1948.
The Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
“The legal recognition of the 1948 Nakbah as an act of ethnic cleansing would pave the way for some form of restitutive justice.”
Ilan Pappé
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian were driven out, mainly from the urban space in Palestine, before the war began on May 15, 1948. So, only half of those who became refugees lost their homes during, and because of, the fighting.
Plan Dalet & The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Plan Dalet (also known as Plan D) was the blueprint used by the new Israeli army and its militia forerunner to expel indigenous Palestinians from their homeland during Israel’s establishment in 1948.