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The Children of Palestine
May 16, 2012
By Julie Holm for MIFTAH

Yesterday Palestinians all over the world marked Nakba-day, which commemorates the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. It is a day when Palestinians remember the fatal events 64 years ago and remind each other that they will not give up until Palestine is free.

Together with thousands of people I took to the streets of Ramallah, joined by a group of amazing women and their children. Even my colleague and friend who is very pregnant and passed her due date defied the sun and the crowds of people to be part of this day...

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MIFTAH's Opinion & Editorials
On This Nakba Anniversary, Time to Focus on Palestine
May 14, 2012
By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH

Tomorrow marks the 64th anniversary of Al Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. It is a day each year that Palestinians remember the calamity which befell them in order for the State of Israel to be born. The original 800,000 or so Palestinians who fled their homes in fear have now multiplied tenfold. There are over five million registered Palestinian refugees living in camps in Palestine and neighboring Arab countries. And every year, they remember their homes, their lands, and their lost lives to which they still long to return.

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Week in Review
Hunger Strikers at Dangerous Precipice [May 6 - May 12]
May 12, 2012
By MIFTAH

Some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike continued to refuse food this week as seven of them are said to be “close to death.” Around 1,600 have been on strike for their third week in a row. Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Thiab have been on strike since February 29 with an Israeli prison physician saying Halahleh could die at any moment, according to his lawyer Mona Neddaf on May 10. Neddaf visited the 33-year old prisoner in the Ramleh prison clinic and reported back saying that Halahleh is vomiting blood...

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The Palestinian Struggle Persists
May 16, 2012
By Rami G. Khouri
In The Daily Star

Yesterday marked the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba of May 1948, when Israel was established and Palestinians experienced the combination of exile and occupation that still defines them today. The day was marked as usual by a variety of events around the world, from symbolic demonstrations by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza to protests at Israeli embassies around the world.

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Recognizing Nakba, Reaching Peace
May 16, 2012
By Hanan Ashrawi
In Haaretz, 15 May. 2012

May is the cruelest month despite the promise of spring. It carries the bitter memories of ongoing loss and injustice for a nation, my nation. Every year, Palestinians mark Al-Nakba, or the Catastrophe, of 1948, to remember how our vibrant society was physically and politically crushed by violence and forced expulsion. It was not a natural disaster. Indeed, we have no doubt that itwasa detailed plan of systematic destruction carried out with chilling efficiency.

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Arab Spring and the Nakbeh
May 16, 2012
By Osama Al Sharif
In The Jordan Times

The Arab Spring has not been good to the Palestinian cause. It has deflected attention from Israel’s nefarious scheme to bypass the two-state solution by enforcing a unilateral settlement on the Palestinians. Arab commitment to Palestinian national struggle to achieve statehood is rhetorical at best. In Baghdad a few weeks ago, Arab leaders reiterated the old phrase that the Palestinian issue remains central to them and that everything will be done to fulfil the goal of Palestinian statehood. But the reality tells another story.

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