"Palestinians recall ’48 displacement; Rivals march in unity to mark plight of refugees" by Rizek Abdel Jawad, Associated Press | May 16, 2010
Yup, 62 YEARS and COUNTING!
Palestinians carried a symbolic key during a “nakba,’’ or catastrophe, rally yesterday in Gaza City. (Mohammed Salem/ Reuters)
GAZA CITY — Bitter Palestinian rivals marched together yesterday in a rare show of unity as they marked 62 years of displacement in the war surrounding Israel’s creation.
Yeah, too bad USrael controls Fatah.
Loyalists of rival groups Hamas and Fatah held Palestinian flags and a giant key symbolic of their hoped-for return as part of annual commemorations of what they call the “catastrophe,’’ or “nakba’’ in Arabic.
It sure has been -- for the soul of the world as well as Palestinians.
The names of the villages and towns emptied during the war were written across the key, alongside the slogan “We will return.’’
We are ALL PALESTINIANS NOW!!!!
The plight of the refugees — who fled or were driven from their homes during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war — is one of the most emotionally charged issues for Palestinians and Israel to resolve. Palestinian negotiators have demanded at least partial repatriation.
Yes, the Palestinians are always making demands when Israel just wants to talk (with no preconditions).
Oh, never mind those dead Palestinians.
Israel has refused, saying an influx of refugees would dilute Israel’s Jewish majority and threaten the existence of the state.
GOOD! Maybe we can GET RID of that CANCER FOREVER!
This from a bunch of SUPREMACIST USURPERS and LAND-STEALERS from KHAZAR!!!
Gaza’s Hamas rulers invited their Fatah rivals to participate in yesterday’s march, a rare gesture from the Islamic militant group since it seized Gaza and ousted Fatah forces in June 2007.
Once again we get the LIE!!!!
The s*** AmeriKan jewsmedia KNOWS "Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006."
Yup, the MSM KNOWS THEY WON ELECTIONS but keeps repeating the same garbage!
Btw, Hamas foiled a COUP ATTEMPT!!!!
Therefore, they are NOT TO BE BELIEVED on any matter -- especially ALL THINGS ISRAEL -- and they PROVE IT EVERY DAY!!!!
In previous years, different Palestinian factions organized their own events, highlighting their inability to work together on key issues.
And WHO BENEFITS?
No political speeches were made — an apparent nod to the fundamental ideological differences between Hamas and Fatah. Marchers also were asked not to raise the flags of their parties. Some Fatah women got around the ban by wearing yellow headscarves, the color of their movement.
Some 4.7 million Palestinians refugees and their descendants are scattered across the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria, according to UN figures.
Oh, like the JEWS ONCE WERE?!!!!
About one-third still live in UN-supported refugee camps.
Serving Israel yet again by allowing the situation to be perpetuated and perpetrated forever.
GENERATIONS have KNOWN NOTHING BUT REFUGEE CAMPS as "HOME!" Can you EVEN IMAGINE and COMPREHEND that, Amurkn?
At the Gaza rally, marcher Amina Hasanat, 50, held up tattered documents she said showed her family owned a house and land in what is now the southern city of Beersheba in Israel. “They [the Jews] can go back to where they came from, and we will return to our homes and lands,’’ Hasanat said.
AGREED!
Why should Palestinians have to pay for Europe's crime?
In the West Bank city of Ramallah, hundreds of Palestinian motorists and pedestrians halted as a one-minute siren wailed to mark the anniversary. Smaller marches took place in other West Bank towns and in east Jerusalem.
In Lebanon, the militant Hezbollah group, which fought a guerrilla war against Israeli forces until they withdrew from south Lebanon in 2000, said in a statement that “resistance and sacrifice’’ are the only way to retake Arab-claimed lands.
Nothing about the 2006 Israeli aggression and Hezbollah's ass-kicking of Israel, huh?
I guess the distortions and obfuscations never stop with AmeriKa's jewsmedia.
“At the 62nd anniversary of nakba, we call upon all Arabs to keep the Palestinian cause alive in the eyes and hearts of all generations,’’ said Hezbollah, which also battled Israel in a 34-day war in 2006 that left some 1,200 Lebanese and 160 Israelis dead.
Oh, they DID MENTION IT after all.
FLASHBACK:
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What do you know, MORE ISRAELI WAR CRIMES!!!! Egypt, meanwhile, opened its usually closed border crossing with Gaza yesterday for the first time in 75 days to allow medical patients and Gazans with residency abroad to leave the blockaded territory.
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However, since Israel's piracy on the high seas Egypt has seen fit to leave the border open.
World outrage is having an effect, folks.
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Of course, it isn't poow widdle Iswael that is knocking down buildings with bulldozers and bombs, right?
"Hamas tears down Palestinian homes" by Associated Press | May 17, 2010
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas police wielding clubs beat and pushed residents out of dozens of homes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah yesterday before knocking the buildings down with bulldozers, residents said.
Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said the homes were built illegally on government land. Newly homeless residents were furious over Palestinians on bulldozers razing Palestinian homes.
For years, Palestinians have criticized Israel for destroying houses, mostly because they were built without permits issued by the military. Now, Rafah residents complained, their own government, run by the Islamic militant Hamas that seized power in Gaza in July 2007, has done the same....
Ever notice it is NEVER Zionist miltants that SEIZED and STOLE land in my jewspaper?
And since they CONSTANTLY LIE, DISTORT, and OBFUSCATE on the politics of the Palestinians then the "Islamic militant" description is not to be believed, either -- nor should it.
Residents said between 30 and 40 homes were torn down, ranging from concrete structures to tin shacks.
Were they unsafe or something?
How many has Israel plowed under?
I mean, they KILLED a GIRL that a BOAT was named after!
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Oh, that is what I am reading.
They did not know how many people were affected. Hamas officials did not allow reporters into the area until the demolition was over.
Israel never allows reporters in period, yet I don't see the Zionist MSM making a fuss about it.
Residents said more demolitions in the area were expected today.
Old habits are hard to break; Zionist MSM ignored the further demolitions (if they ever occurred at all; yes, we have reached that point with the AmeriKan jewsmedia).
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