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Annies letters
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May 7, 6:46am
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Next week is the 60th anniversary of Palestine's grief
and Annie's Letters is a blog that fills in the blanks
for those who care to look past the celebrations of Israel's
birth -- which are being trumpeted everywhere.
The 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba: the disaster of the people of Palestine.
On this date, May 15th 1948, we, the people of Palestine began our long and painful journey into exile.
Dispossessed from home and homeland, this was the start of the refugee `problem' that still exists today.
So as Israel "celebrates", we mourn the disgraceful fact that more than 3 million Palestinians still languish as refugees in squalid conditions in what were supposed to be "temporary camps" in Palestine and throughout the Arab world.
The world seems to have "forgotten" the promise made to them, enshrined in International Law and United Nations Resolution 194, The Right of Return of Palestinian refugees to the homes, lands, and villages which they were forced to leave.
My own grandmother and the grandparents of my children were forcibly expelled from their ancestral village of Lifta, leaving their homes, lands, and belongings as they fled in fear.
The villages empty homes were looted of their contents before holes were blown in the roofs and floors of these houses by the Zionist forces . . ."
-- Mike Odetalla
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