Happy Nakba!

[Ransom]

Today's the 78th anniversary of the Nakba ("Disaster" or "Catastrophe"): the humiliating defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared. The next day, on which the British Mandate expired, the armies of the seven nations of the Arab League----Egypt, Jordan (then Transjordan), Iraq, and Syria, along with support from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen--invaded Israel. In the end, the invasion was unsuccessful and in fact the Arab nations lost territory--to a nation only one day old when the war began.

Constantin Zureiq, the Syrian anti-Zionist and Arab nationalist intellectual who coined the term nakba in his book The Meaning of the Disaster, blames the Arabs for their own defeat: they were disunified, unprepared, and underestimated the strength of the enemy. He warned them to learn from their mistakes.

As we've seen since October 7, the Arabs still underestimate their enemy, to their own continued humiliation.

 

[ALAYMAN]

Jooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!

 

[Ekklesian]

Today's the 78th anniversary of the Nakba ("Disaster" or "Catastrophe"): the humiliating defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared. The next day, on which the British Mandate expired, the armies of the seven nations of the Arab League----Egypt, Jordan (then Transjordan), Iraq, and Syria, along with support from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen--invaded Israel. In the end, the invasion was unsuccessful and in fact the Arab nations lost territory--to a nation only one day old when the war began.

Constantin Zureiq, the Syrian anti-Zionist and Arab nationalist intellectual who coined the term nakba in his book The Meaning of the Disaster, blames the Arabs for their own defeat: they were disunified, unprepared, and underestimated the strength of the enemy. He warned them to learn from their mistakes.

As we've seen since October 7, the Arabs still underestimate their enemy, to their own continued humiliation.

And you say you’re not a Zionist.

 

[Ransom]

And you say you’re not a Zionist.

Congratulations on taking the bait.

 

[illinoisguy]

Commentary on the Nakba by Israeli Ashkenazi Jooooooish historian Ilan Pappe:

"That the Palestinians were quite defenceless between 29 November 1947 (when the UN partition resolution was adopted) and 15 May 1948 (the day the mandate ended and units from neighbouring Arab states arrived to try and save the Palestinians) is not a mere chronological fact. It categorically debunks the main claim in Israeli propaganda about the war - that Palestinians became refugees because the Arab world invaded Palestine and told them to leave; a myth too many people around the world still accept today. . . .

"The Nakba destroyed a country as well as the lives and aspirations of its people. The huge human capital that Palestinian society had developed was, through refugees, invested in other Arab countries, contributing to their cultural, educational and economic development.

"The message from the world to Israel was that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which was well known in the West, was acceptable - mainly as compensation for the Holocaust and the centuries of antisemitism that had plagued Europe."

Palestine was destroyed in 12 months - but the Nakba has gone on for 75 years

The Nakba devastated the lives and aspirations of the Palestinian people. Only a thorough process of restitutive justice, with the help of the world, can begin to right the wrongs

www.middleeasteye.net

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

Concerning Arab attacks on the evil Zionist state, inhabited by evil and despicable Jooos:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/middleeast/report-sexual-violence-hamas-oct-7-attacks-intl

 

[Ransom]

Commentary on the Nakba by Israeli Ashkenazi Jooooooish historian Ilan Pappe:

The displacement of refugees is part of Zureiq's argument, and it's a valid criticism of Israeli policy if one feels so inclined. But for Zureiq, the real Nakba, the "disaster," was the abject failure of the Arab states to eliminate Zionism. They went in intending to erase Israel, and came out of it losing their own country, having underestimated the determination of a nation of Holocaust survivors not to get genocided twice.

In eight decades, the Palestinians have rebranded the Nakba from their own failure into Jewish guilt. And that's a canard, albeit a widely believed one.