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y Omar (Jordan)
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Today marks the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba [i.e. The ‘Catastrophe’], the day in which around 750,000 of the original inhabitants of Palestine lost their homes and lives to become refugees in neighboring countries in the year 1948. In that day, 75% of the Arabic population of Palestine fled outside the conflict zone, a conflict that is commemorated by the Palestinians as a catastrophe and by the Israelis as a liberation war that ended with what was described as independence.