Description
This bulletin intends to present a Palestinian record of the Nakba – a calamity
which has been reduced in the minds of many to a few months of violent conflict
and labeled “The 1948 War”. It is in fact a continuous process of colonialism
that began with the first Zionist settlements and the idea of an organized Zionist
movement at the end of the 19th Century. The bulletin outlines how and that –
after gathering momentum with the establishment of the Jewish National Fund,
whose express purpose was the acquisition of Arab land in Pales tine, Syria and
the Sinai, in 1901 – the process of the Nakba continues to this day through
the discriminatory and expansionist practices of the Israeli establishment,
facilitated by the support or soft criticism of the inter national community that
has been an integral part of Israeli strategy for the past 60 years.
