Nakba

Israel has made it a policy to ignore UN resolutions. The most famous one, UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed just after the Six Day War, talked of the “inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every state in the area can live in security.” It demanded the “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.”

Protests marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 entered their second day, to mark 67 years since the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" that befell them when Israel was established. More than 700,000 Palestinians, estimated today to number around 5.5 million, fled or were driven from their homes in 1948, with the Nakba observed every May 15. For the Palestinians, the right to return to homes they fled or were forced out of is a prerequisite for peace.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto, CA, USA