How ‘nakba’ proves the fiction of a Palestinian Nation

I love history and it saddens me to see the way that history changes as people warp it to their political agenda. I pray that the honest version will someday be known to the Public and that the Media will help to disseminate it.

How ‘<I>nakba</I>’ proves the fiction of a Palestinian Nation: "Over the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby. Meaning 'catastrophe' in Arabic, it has been embraced by anti-Semites all over the planet to refer to Israel's creation, which supposedly imposed a 'catastrophe' upon the 'disenfranchised Palestinian Arabs.'

Of course, the real catastrophe that befell the Arabs in 1948-49 was that they failed in their attempt to annihilate Israel and exterminate its population, and for that they paid a price.

Meanwhile, nakba Nonsense has been spreading. Google finds over 85,000 web pages referring to Israel's creation as a 'nakba,' and a Yahoo search finds even more than that. The anti-Israel web magazine Counterpunch cannot mention Israel without using the term. Even Israel's leftist minister of education, Yuli Tamir, has ordered that the nakba be taught as part of the curriculum in Israeli schools, where Israel's schoolchildren can be taught to mourn their own country's existence."