Today, May 15, is Nakba Day — the day Palestinians remember the catastrophe of 1948, when hundreds of thousands were driven from their homes and Palestine was torn apart.
But the Nakba did not begin and end in 1948.
The Nakba never ended. It only changed uniforms.
For more than 100 years, from Balfour’s letter to Rothschild to today’s war crimes, Palestine has lived under a promise made by Britain over land it never owned and had no moral right to give away.
That is the real history: empire wrote the letter, Zionism built the machinery, and Palestinians were forced to live inside the catastrophe.
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