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	Nakba -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nakba or Al-Nakba ((The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic: النكبة, pronounce An-Nakba) is a term meaning "cataclysm" or "calamity".
		The term Nakba was coined by Constantine Zurayk, a professor of history at the (Click link for more info and facts about American University of Beirut) American University of Beirut, in his 1948 book Ma'nat al-Nakba, The Meaning of Disaster.
		Nakba Day (May 15th) is considered an important day on the Palestinian calendar, and is traditionally observed as a time to learn about the history of Palestine and to remember the event.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/na/nakba.htm (170 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special \| Searching for meaning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nakba, too, became the calamity of homelessness, of wandering unimaginable distances in search of a shelter until the storm passes as they were promised.
		Palestine as it stood then could never have fathomed the nakba, let alone the European and international causes behind it, and it is both ridiculous and unfair to pass judgment in hindsight on their refusal of the partition resolution at the time.
		When the nakba struck -- that is, when the Jewish Yishov leaders declared the independence of Israel and Israeli forces occupied portions of land that had been allocated to Palestine under the partition resolution -- the Palestinians had no power to resist, their strength having been sapped in the Intifada of 1936-1939.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/690/sc4.htm (3630 words)

	Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Israeli estimate of the refugees is 520,000 and the Palestinian estimate is 900,000.
		Nakba or Al-Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, pronounced An-Nakba) is a term meaning "cataclysm" or "catastrophe".
		The term Nakba was coined by Constantin Zureiq, a professor of history at the American University of Beirut, in his 1948 book Ma'nat al-Nakba, The Meaning of the Disaster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nakba (4157 words)

	CJIP - Nakba Day
		Throughout the Arab world, the word is used to refer to the devastation of Palestinian society and the dispossession of the Palestinian people resulting from the ethnic cleansing conducted by Zionist forces during 1947-48.
		Nakba Day is also an occasion to celebrate the continued vitality of Palestinian culture in the face of continuing hardships, and to reaffirm Palestinian aspirations for peace and self-determination.
		The Nakba is also the source of the still-unresolved Palestinian refugee problem.
	www.stanford.edu /group/cjip/nakbafaq.htm (440 words)

	israelinsider: security: High alert as Palestinians, Israeli Arabs mark Nakba Day
		Palestinians and Israeli Arabs mark May 15th as a reminder of their claim that the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 was a disaster that led to the mass exodus of Palestinians, the destruction of their villages and the loss of their homeland.
		Nakba Day is marked each year on May 15, in accordance with the international date on which the State of Israel was established.
		Commenting on preparations for Nakba Day events, Gamla, a non-profit organization established with the goal of explaining the importance of Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights to the security of Israel, wrote in its newsletter today, "What happened to the Arabs in 1947-8 was from their viewpoint, a catastrophe.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0044.htm (658 words)

	Arabic Media Internet Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The memory of the nakba will not succeed in creating democratic institutions in the Arab world or in realizing Arab unity, not so long as it is shaped by ideology, which is shaped by various interests, tailored by regimes, regurgitated in schoolbooks and reproduced in the desired form.
		Recognition of the nakba, which is to say recognition of the historic injury that was visited upon the Palestinian people in 1948, is a prerequisite in the search for realizing relative justice for this people (relative to what befell them in 1948).
		There are some who are trying to drop this subject from the international, regional and national agenda, in spite of the fact that the Palestinians obtained international resolutions in their favor as refugees even before the international community recognized them as a people with a right to self-determination.
	www.amin.org /eng/azmi_bishara/2004/may13.html (3514 words)

	PRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It can be said, that the Nakba is not synonymous with a particular date, as has been used in discourse to show direct relation to 1948, rather it is a massive, and complicated historical process that required prior preparation and precursors.
		Thus the Nakba led to a liquidation of farming as an activity and production method amongst the refugees, destroying in another context the material and economic basis on which the Palestinian extended family, patriarchy, and tribe depended, and the destruction of social relations, position and structure that revolved around the land and its ownership.
		From the same pain created by the Nakba, came the tidings of resistance, action and revolution, and in the neighbourhoods and alleyways of the refugee camp, the Palestinian formed and innovated strategies for his continued survival and his resistance at all levels; social, cultural and of struggle.
	www.prc.org.uk /data/aspx/d8/648.aspx (1185 words)

	Palestinian Nakba Did Not End in 1948
		The original Nakba, however, with its mass killing and expulsion of Palestinians, and the destruction and appropriation of their homes, cities and villages, was just the beginning of the Palestinian catastrophe.
		To date, however, there is no single Nakba museum, locally or abroad, to transmit to future generations the lesson learned from another example of "man’s inhumanity to man." Instead, Israeli politicians officially discuss the "transfer" of Palestinians, while "demographic management strategies" to address the "Palestinian fertility danger" is public news.
		The international media flout of this contemporary Nakba, and of Palestinians’; human stories, perspective, facts and figures, is more proof that the parameters of complicity are wider than the mere occupation of land.
	www.aloufok.net /article.php3?id_article=1325 (1427 words)

	albawaba.com middle east news information::”Nakba day” commemorated in Palestine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Abbas said Palestinians oppose the option of acquiring citizenship from the countries they reside in because they feel the banishment of the Palestinians by Israel is the most severe crime in modern history.
		A siren marking Nakba Day was heard throughout the Palestinian territories at 12:00 p.m.
		Nakba day, or the “Palestinian catastrophe day,” marks Israel’s independence and the subsequent exodus of Palestinian refugees from Israeli-controlled land.
	www.albawaba.com /en/news/183584 (200 words)

	Self-Inflicted Nakba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such is the case with what Arabs call their nakba, celebrated each year on May 15th.
		In contrast to the Arabs' largely self-inflicted nakba, forced conversions, being branded the deicide people or killers of prophets and being treated accordingly, inquisitions, demonization, dehumanization, ghettos, blood libels, massacres, expulsions, the Holocaust, and existence as perpetual stranger in someone else's land became the plight of the "Wandering Jew,"...
		The sad reality is that the alleged Arab nakba occurred because Arabs insisted that the millennial nightmare of the Jews should continue into perpetuity.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/06-06-05/Self-InflictedNakba.htm (1385 words)

	Nakba Day remembers Palestine - Campus Watch
		Nakba Day is considered the most important date on the Palestinian calendar.
		"Nakba," which means "catastrophe" in Arabic, is observed throughout the world on May 15.
		The day is meant to be a time to learn the history of Palestine and its people and to remember the period when 700,000 Palestinians left Israel during Israel's war for independence in 1947-1948.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/694 (546 words)

	Ethnic cleansing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since 1947 expulsions of Hindus from both the Pakistani and Indian ruled regions of the disputed territory of Kashmir by Islamist militant groups.
		The Nakba, or Palestinian exodus, in which the substantial majority of Palestinians (600,000-900,000) in the areas of Palestine that became part of Israel fled or were forcibly deported by Jewish forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
		The flight of Jews from the areas of Palestine occupied by Jordan and Egypt during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnic_cleansing (2565 words)

	PRC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This project, Wound of the Nakba, to me represents the project of a lifetime, to revive Palestinian memory and instil this into the coming generations – this publication is close to my self – embodying the tragedy of the Palestinian people in its reality.
		Before the Nakba, the population of Palestine from the sea to the River Jordan was 1.6 million, and the Palestinians in the areas of 1948 before the Nakba were 700,000, while after the Nakba only 156,000 remained.
		As for the number of villages whose inhabitants were expelled during the Nakba, these were 550, of which 70 remain today, still inhabited by their people.
	www.prc.org.uk /data/aspx/d1/811.aspx (1051 words)

	Nakba '48 - Raising awareness of Palestine at the University of Florida
		Nakba '48 - Raising awareness of Palestine at the University of Florida
		A student organization at the University of Florida seeking to raise awareness of Palestine
		Nakba '48 invites all student and community organizations at the University of Florida to join with us in forming Gainesville Coalition for Justice, a broad-based alliance of progressive organizations at the University of Florida and in the Gainesville community.
	grove.ufl.edu /~nakba48 (888 words)

	Who Prevents The New Nakba? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Arabs are witnessing a second Nakba (calamity) to happen in the Palestinian territories that Israel occupied in its 1967 expansion war.
		The wall, which embittered the citizens' life, is now threatening, or forcing, displacement, because escaping the savage giant wall would be the only choice over prison life, poverty and cut off from their lands, relatives and friends.
		Arab leaders will face a tough test, in their preparation of next month's summit; they will have to prevent the new Nakba that is about to happen in Palestine, and help Iraq restore its sovereignty and independence.
	www.jerusalemites.org /articles/press/press1/2.htm (254 words)

	The Electronic Intifada - Action Items - Nakba widely misrepresented as an anti-Israeli protest instead of a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE NAKBA DOES NOT MOURN THE CREATION OF ISRAEL - The Nakba is the commemmoration of the destruction of 415 Palestinian villages and the creation of almost one million Palestinian refugees in the years between 1947 and 1950.
		Although it may be true that the actual Nakba day commemmoration is held on the day of Israel's founding, every Palestinian is aware that the events being commemmorated took place from 1947 and 1950 and that the marches and rallies are intended to raise awareness of Palestinian history.
		Portraying the street protests as an integral part of the Nakba commemmoration conveys a racist impression that Palestinians are only capable of hatred in response to tragedy.
	electronicintifada.net /actionitems/20010515.html (612 words)

	Palestinians reassert right of return on Nakba’s 55th anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Occupied Jerusalem - As many as nine million Palestinians on Thursday commemorated the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, by reasserting the right of more than four million Palestinian refugees to return to their native hometowns and villages in what is now Israel.
		In towns and villages in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and in refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria Palestinians held marches during which they reaffirmed their commitment to their right of return.
		But the Palestinians insist that the right of return is inalienable and that no real peace in the Middle East can be reached without allowing the refugees to return to their homes and villages from which they were expelled at gunpoint.
	www.palestine-info.co.uk /am/publish/printer_994.shtml (456 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| 'Our catastrophe was the creation of Israel'
		It is embodied in the attempt to expel them from being, from space, from time, after the usurpation of their homes and their histories, after their transformation from an honest entity in time and place to a ghostly surplus to requirements, exiles from being.
		But the makers of the nakba, of the catastrophe, failed to break the will of the Palestinian people and to eradicate their national identity, through diasporisation, through massacre, through pretending that the mirage was a reality, through the production of a counterfeit history.
		Today the remembrance of the nakba comes in the midst of the hardships suffered by Palestinians while they defend their essential humanity and dignity, their natural right to freedom and to self-determination on part of their historical homeland, after making concessions over and above those expected by international law to make peace truly possible.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,490509,00.html (755 words)

	A Second Nakba? (by Uri Avnery) - Media Monitors Network
		When a Palestinian says "Nakba" (disaster), he means the expulsion of more than half the Palestinian people from the territories that became the State of Israel in the course of the 1948 war.
		It was said that if the Palestinians continue with their violent acts, they should not be surprised if a second nakba befalls them.
		When Shitreet and his like say that the escalation may lead to a second nakba, one can turn the sentence around; in order to make a second nakba possible, there must be an escalation.
	www.mediamonitors.net /uri22.html (1180 words)

	Palestine National Council Reiterates Palestinian Rights, Marking 57th Nakba Anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a statement reported by the Palestine News Agency (WAFA), the PNC called the Palestinian people to unite and stick to their legitimate rights, warning them of any form of domestic violence or civil war for any reason as the 'Israeli occupation is targeting them all with no exception'.
		Demonstrators chanted slogans, reminding the world with the Nakba (catastrophe), the Palestinian people have been going through over the past 57 years and advocating the refugees' right of return to their homes they were evicted from by Israelis in 1948.
		On the same front, both the committee to mark the Nakba and the Al-Ama'ary and Jalazoun committee, organized in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday, two Nakba related exhibitions, showing paintings and homemade works, reflecting such an anniversary.
	www.aljazeerah.info /News%20archives/2005%20News%20Archives/May/15n/Palestine%20National%20Council%20Reiterates%20Palestinian%20Rights,%20Marking%2057th%20Nakba%20Anniversary.htm (561 words)

	nakba
		At a brainstorming conference on February 12, the Higher NationCommittee to Commemorate 50 Years of Nakba, headed by Culture and Media minister Yasser Abed Rabbo, politicians, educators, intellectuals and community leaders discussed the various commemoration activities the ministry is planning to launch.
		As for the memorial museum committee, its task centers around establishing a Nakba museum whose corner stone is expected to be laid by the end of the year as well as building a memorial with the names of all Palestinians who died in 1948.
		Also in March and part of its Nakba lecture series, KSCC will present a lecture on documenting demolished villages by Ibrahim Mir'i, a postgraduate student at Birzeit University and the author of a book on the demolished village of Zir'in.
	www.jmcc.org /media/report/98/Mar/1b.htm (1110 words)

	Palestinians Mark 57th Anniversary of Nakba Yahya Yakhlef: ‘Right of Return’ Is Cornerstone of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The fifth of the Hebrew month of Iyar falls this year on May 14, the Jewish and Gregorian dates on which the State of Israel was declared, though ironically, Independence Day celebrations were brought one day forward because the holiday would otherwise fall on Shabbat.
		Until mid-May, numerous events were organized by local organizations in West Bank and Gaza Strip to be followed on 15 May by a national memorial ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the seat of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).
		“In principle it seems that May 15, Nakba Day, would be the best day to mark such a day,” or “as close as possible to May 15, but on a date that would never fall after the Hebrew date for Independence Day,” he said.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=1&id=886 (789 words)

	Think-Israel
		The major theme of the website is the Nakba - the events of 1948, the historical developments that preceded them and the problem of the Palestinian refugees.
		Documents, maps and various studies regarding the Nakba are used to support the Palestinian point of view.
		The webpage containing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is only available in the Arabic version, as a subsection in a section titled The Historical Background of the Nakba, in the sub-part dealing with the Zionist movement (between the part dealing with the leaders of Zionism and the part dealing with the Balfour Declaration).
	www.think-israel.org /erlich.protocols.html (2327 words)

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