#nakba1948 — Public Fediverse posts

#AviShlaim, la #mémoire à vif d’un juif arabe déraciné de #Bagdad
https://orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/avi-shlaim-la-memoire-a-vif-d-un-juif-arabe-deracine-de-bagdad,6621
Selon #VirginiaWoolf, beaucoup de mémoires sont des échecs parce qu’ils « laissent de côté la personne à qui les choses sont arrivées » Récit d'un petit garçon impressionnable et d'un l’adolescent troublé décrit par un universitaire d’âge mûr dont l'expérience personnelle illustre et éclaire une histoire beaucoup plus vaste, celle de l’exode juif d’#Irak après la création de l’État d’Israël en #nakba1948

Apropos Michal Weits, who’s the granddaughter of Yosef Weitz known as the “father of the transfer” (forced expulsion of Palestinians)… watch the trailer for Blue Box.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcATgbgWe4

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#Nakba1948 / The birth of an "Hasbrah Nation” ...

[...] Ben-Gurion probably never heard the word “Nakba,” but early on, at the end of the 1950s, Israel’s first prime minister grasped the importance of the historical narrative. Just as #Zionism had forged a new narrative for the Jewish people within a few decades, he understood that the other nation that had resided in the country before the advent of Zionism would also strive to formulate a narrative of its own. For the Palestinians, the national narrative grew to revolve around the Nakba, the calamity that befell them following Israel’s establishment in 1948, when about 700,000 Palestinians became refugees.

Historian Shay Hazkani (today an associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland) uncovered in this early publication a concerted effort orchestrated by Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, to manipulate the historical narrative surrounding the 1948 Palestinian exodus/explosion.

Seeking to secure international sympathy for the Jewish state (which declared independence unilaterally after a failed attempt to implement the partition resolution and while the UN were busy formulation a trustsheep, suggested by the U.S.), Ben-Gurion instructed Israeli historians to produce research that would obscure the expulsion of Palestinians, instead promoting the narrative that they fled their homes voluntarily.

Hazkani argues that this manipulation was a calculated attempt to rewrite history, downplaying Israel's role in the Palestinian #Nakba and swaying global opinion in favor of the newly established nation.

https://issuu.com/shay_hazkani/docs/of_their_own_free_will

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"The land didn't really wait 2,000 years empty": Historian Alon Confino passes away at 65

Can one write a story of Palestinian destruction without concluding that Israel was born in sin?

As a child, Alon Confino didn't think much about the history of his #Jerusalem neighborhood. "I knew that Arabs used to live in #Talbiya," he wrote. "It was a vague, undefined piece of information." But the past was still palpable. He could easily identify the "Arab houses" - they were more elegant than the new ones built after 1948. People spoke about the past of these houses in hushed tones, as if it was a secret. "The Arab past was both present and absent, hinted at and denied."

He studied at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem [prestigious high school that was founded in 1909 and is known for its strong emphasis on Hebrew language and culture]. "For many, including myself, #Zionism was a very positive value. In my youth, any comment that cast doubt on the pure Zionist narrative was immediately rejected as anti-Semitic," he said. In 1973, he won first place in a quiz about the War of Independence. "I knew every operation and every campaign," he wrote. "It was a war of the few against the many, good against evil. The displacement of the Palestinians was not part of the story."

Years later, as a historian at Ben-Gurion University, Virginia, and Amherst, Confino studied how we remember the past. "The story we tell ourselves about the past is always dependent on time, place, and social, cultural, and political context," he said. He explained how individuals and nations suppress, distort, or deny their past. "Our memories of the past don't reflect what actually happened, but what we wanted to happen," he said. "We remember the past to manipulate it, to build a more comfortable identity in the present, to forget uncomfortable pasts and justify them."

Hebrew [July 25] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/obit/2024-07-25/ty-article/00000190-ea82-d603-abb5-fb83ae980000 or https://archive.ph/9H4Bp

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#Zionism / "We're not afraid of Iran or the Palestinians, but of what we're denying that we did." (Alon Idan)

The #Nakba of 1948:

[...] We need to acknowledge what happened. We need to talk about it. We need to write about it. We need to teach about it. We don't need to be afraid of it. It happened not because we were "bad", not because we wanted to harm and torture in the name of evil and pain. It happened because we thought, we believed, we were convinced, that we had no choice, that it was either us or them. We were traumatized, post-traumatic in the deepest and most terrifying sense of the concept. We acted like automatic survival machines and "didn't take prisoners."

[...] But it haunts us. It haunts us without us even realizing it's haunting us. We are ghosts of denial. A sense of guilt that takes the form of a nation. And this sense of guilt turns into fear. And the fear turns into violence. And this violence turns into destruction. And this destruction is directed outward, towards those who threaten us. But since the source of the guilt is denied, and the details can be found in Oedipus, it is we who will ultimately pay the price.

[Hebrew] https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/blacklist/2024-05-23/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/0000018f-a5ce-d476-a7df-e7ef0df70000

Comment: Zionist project, including the idea of displacement of the indigenous people of Palestine, dates to the end of the 19th century, before the #Holocaust

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Palestine refugees initially displaced to Gaza board boats to Lebanon or Egypt, in 1949.

Hrant Nakashian/1949 UN Archives

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The evacuation of Iraq al-Manshiyya, near today’s Kiryat Gat, in March, 1949.

International forces overseeing the evacuation of Iraq al-Manshiyya, near today’s Kiryat Gat, in March, 1949.

Collection of Benno Rothenberg/Israel State Archives

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My deepest condolences to all the Palestinians who are grieving past and present atrocities against them this Nakba. 😞💚

The ongoing oppression, vilification and genocide of Palestinians is among humanity’s biggest failures. It should never have been allowed to happen. Not now, not then in 1948 and beyond, and not ever again.

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@RememberUsAlways @vegafjord @palestine @israel except a two state solution misses the problem that the UN proposed borders favor the Israelis in giving them more arable land, not to mention that before the #nakba1948 much of that land was still inhabited by Palestinians

The only way for long lasting peace is to create a single, secular state based on geography and not religion or ethnicity. This is the 21st century, ethnostates are so 20th century...

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