“The ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel was not an unintended consequence, or fortuitous occurrence, or even a ‘miracle’, as Israel’s first president Chaim Weizmann later proclaimed; it was the result of long and meticulous planning,” Ilan Pappe, Professor of Political Science at Haifa University, in his book ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’.
This week, the [...]

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Palestinian youth in the Dheisheh refugee camp talk about what it means for them to be a refugee, their identities and hopes for the future.

Video source: ibdaa194.org
Update -Also available at:
Dailymotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5dc8w_refugeehood-the-inheritance_news

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It was a happy moment when I heard the news that UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched in coordination with Google Earth, a new layer that focus on refugee camps around the world. This should be a great tool to follow the crisis of Palestinian refugees under occupation and expose it to the world [...]

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To explain the initiative a website has been created:
http://www.return08.com/Eng/index.html
In the website it is proposed that the initiative is implemented on the 14th May, 2008 (to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the 1948 war).
“Marking 60 years of dispossession and homelessness, it will be a day for the international community and the Palestinian people to carry [...]

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PA-Israeli document liquidating RoR unveiled
The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper has unveiled in its late edition on Monday a “serious” PA-Israeli document that aims at liquidating the right of return of millions of Palestinian refugees to their homeland in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands.
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A number of alternatives were suggested by the document to solve the refugees’ issue, including [...]

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Some 4.4 million Palestinians remain refugees nearly 60 years after the start of the 1948 war. About one third of these refugees still live inside camps. Examples of conditions in various countries: Jordan hosts about 1.8 million Palestinian refugees including some 130,000 people who fled from Gaza in 1967. These refugees, as opposed to most [...]

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“I managed to escape the fighting with my wife and kids and my aunt,” Mohammad begins. “But as soon as we got out the camp, the soldiers separated us into two groups. They let the women and children go, and handcuffed the men.” Then, Mohammad says, they were blindfolded and driven away in a large [...]

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Following is a letter from a Bahraini friend working with a NGO providing emergency relief to newly displaced refugees from the Nahr el Bared refugee camp in the North of Lebanon:
Dear friends,
Hope this email finds you safe and well.
From the Shatila (Palestinian) refugee camp in Beirut, I am working at an NGO called the Children [...]

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Sari Chreih and Razan Al-Ghazzawi – Interview with a Physician on Nahr el-Bared Tragedy
Q: What is your name and profession?
A: My name is Saleh Bhar and I am a pediatrician at American University Hospital (AUH, Beirut, Lebanon).
Q: We learned that you lost a member of your family during the bombings, which day was that?
A: During [...]

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On 24 May 2007 the Israeli Army invaded the Balata refugee camp outside the West Bank city of Nablus. First entering the camp disguised as Palestinian civilians, and later with a number of armored vehicles, the army arrested camp residents and placed the entire population under curfew. This video produced by the Research Journalism Initiative [...]

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I’ve been watching the latest Palestinian refugees crises for a week now. Thousands of Palestinian refugees fled from Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon as one week of clashes by the Lebanese army and a militant group known as Fath al-Islam has left dozens of soldiers and fighters (better described as terrorists) and an [...]

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Despite gains made to make ‘occupation’ the frame of reference in understanding what is going on in the Occupied Palestine, to a large extent the occupation continues to remain “invisible”.
The occupation’s invisibility is mainly credited to propaganda-influenced media reports. Repeated studies of the media’s coverage of Palestine/Israel have highlighted the prevalent pro-Israeli bias. A bias [...]

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The following shocking testimony is a sample of what an uprooted Palestinian face if s/he wish to return home, Palestine.
Nadia Hasan is a Palestinian woman with a Chilean passport. She is a human rights activist and translator. She visited Palestine once before, but since then, her only “sin” is wishing to set foot in the [...]

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This issue is one of the most intractable barrier to a Middle East peace settlement. Millions of Palestinian refugees will always fight for their right to return to their occupied lands and property that was occupied by Israel and now is called the State of Israel.
In the latest Doha Debate, this issue was discussed. The [...]

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Salman Abu-Sitta writes:
Facts have a way of surfacing. The facts, documented on maps and records, show that in 1948 Israelis depopulated the Palestinian inhabitants of 675 towns and villages, that their land represents 93% of Israel’s area; that half of all the refugees have been expelled in the last six weeks of the British Mandate, [...]

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Here are more news and views, which the Zionist media do not want you to see. Nablus; the second oldest city in the world (more here) and its neighboring Balata Camp, living the hell of Israel occupation.
For four consecutive nights, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have invaded Balata Refugee Camp on the outskirts of Nablus, [...]

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The Washington Post is reporting today that 50,000 refugee are fleeing their homes a month, and they need help. As is so often the case with Iraq, the U.S. administration has been slow to recognize the problem and even slower to respond.
The U.S. response has been shockingly small. Though it is spending $8 billion a [...]

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Zionists lobbied and worked against allowing Jewish refugees from WWII to settle in other countries. Here is just one excerpt from Alfred Lilienthal’s book “What Price Israel”:
President Roosevelt was deeply concerned with the plight of the European refugees and thought that all the free nations of the world ought to accept a certain number of [...]

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*****Please Forward Widely!********

Request for a Lawyer (a)
This is a solicitation for legal assistance, to help me present a case, or cases, against the State of Israel and private individuals and organizations, for damages, because of human rights abuses and many other crimes perpetrated against me by persons of Israeli and American citizenship under the protection [...]

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Is Israel guilty of ethnic cleansing? Dr Ilan Pappe, called by some as the “most hated Jew in Israel”, says YES. But fellow Israeli Professor Efraim Karsh says he is “fabricating history”. Ilan Pappe in debate with fellow Israeli Professor Efraim Karsh on Sky News:

Fabricating history? Does this so called Professor have a brain? What [...]

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