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28,500 days: The long genocide

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On May 15, Palestinians around the world commemorated the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, when Zionist militias expelled 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, killed thousands, and destroyed hundreds of villages and cities between 1947-1949. The day before Nakba commemorations is the annual Israeli flag march — a “celebration” of the illegal Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem. Last week, thousands of Israelis rampaged through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, attacked passersby, and chanted about killing Arabs and burning their villages. The Nakba isn’t an event that began and ended 78 years ago. It is a century-long crusade to annihilate Palestinian life: the long genocide.
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