Nakba memories: Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Fri May 16, 2014 18:27:22
On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion declared the 'State of Israel'. By then, the Zionist forces - vastly superior to Palestinian and Arab military capabilities - had already expelled the Palestinian inhabitants of 220 villages and conquered about 13 percent of Palestine. This event is known as the Nakba, meaning the “Catastrophe” in Arabic.