Israel Celebrates, Palestinians Mark 'Nakba'

OPINION: While George Bush addresses the Knesset and Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, the Palestinian people mark 60 years from the day forcible expulsions from their lands began, sending hundreds of thousands fleeing in a global diaspora and beginning the horror that is now the West Bank and the prison of Gaza.  Trapped within these battered cramped remnants of the lands they once shared with the Jews they commemorate those killed by Zionist gangs in 1948 and beyond and protest the grave injustice perpetrated upon them relentlessly over the ensuing decades by Israel. 

Those that fled for their lives comprise the largest refugee
population in the world, about four million souls. Those that remain trapped behind the ever expanding illegal 'Wall' face destruction of their homes and livelihoods, murderous indiscriminate air and ground attacks by the IDF, incessant disruption of basic services and supplies of necessities, arrest and detention without charge, racial persecution and starvation promulgated by the Zionist regime.  This 'Shoa', or holocaust perpetrated against a whole people is shamelessly supported by the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Britain, the United nations and duplicitous members of the Arab League.

As the ethnic cleansing of the 'Holy Land' continues unabated, those of us in the west who understand the plight of the Palestinians mark this infamous anniversary in solidarity with our brothers and sisters as they struggle for basic survival under the boot of their Israeli jailors.