Saturday, 13 May marked the 75th anniversary of the founding of the state of apartheid Israel and no doubt Australian diplomats and politicians were celebrating at the Israeli embassy.
Palestinians will not be celebrating though. For them this occasion is known as the ‘nakba’ or ‘catastrophe’, in which Israeli terrorist groups, Irgun and Hagganah, massacred hundreds, for example, at the village of Deir Yassin. Altogether in the 1947–49 Palestinian war, 400 villages were razed to the ground. Israel drove out 750,000 Palestinians at gunpoint, who are banned from returning.
Israeli terror has ensured the nakba never ended.
Three members of the rocket-firing Palestinian Islamic Jihad were killed by Israel but the ‘collateral damage’ amounted to the deaths of four children and four women, the death toll is now 25!
Gareth W R Smith, Byron Bay
According to the Palestian Health Ministry, 12 people were killed, including the wives and several of the children of the three Palestinian Islamic Jihad members, and twenty other civilians were injured on 9 May. – Ed
