Nakba Day Mourns Wounded Arab Pride, Not Humanitarian Catastrophe
The real disaster.
December 13, 2022
Nakba Day Mourns Wounded Arab Pride, Not Humanitarian Catastrophe
The real disaster.
At the Riyadh Arab-China summit on Friday, the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas demanded that the UK and the U.S. apologize for the Balfour Declaration, and that Israel apologize for the nakba (i.e., the “catastrophe” that befell Palestinian Arabs in 1948). Of a piece with this rhetorical focus on past grievances was the UN General Assembly’s recent vote to mark May 15 as “Nakba Day.” Adi Schwartz comments:
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