Palestinian Family Stays Connected To Their Home Village, Long After Its Destruction
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🗓️ 16 May 2023
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But in the war surrounding Israel's founding, the majority of Palestinian Arabs were permanently displaced from their homeland.
Palestinians call the anniversary of Israel's founding "The Nakba", an Arabic word that translates to "the catastrophe." And many say the catastrophe is not history, it is ever present with the Israeli military occupation.
NPR's Daniel Estrin tells the story of how one Palestinian family stays connected to their home village, decades after it was destroyed.
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| 0:00.0 | This week, the state of Israel turned 75, but Israel was born out of conflict. |
| 0:12.4 | The United Nations voted to split Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. |
| 0:18.1 | Arab leaders rejected the proposal. |
| 0:20.4 | Arabs were a majority, but allocated less than half of the territory. |
| 0:25.1 | The day after the UN vote, fighting broke out between Arab and Jewish militias. |
| 0:30.6 | And on May 15, 1948, David Ben Gurion, one of Israel's founding fathers, announced |
| 0:37.4 | to the world the birth of the state of Israel. |
| 0:48.0 | This is an archival recording of him reading Israel's Declaration of Independence. |
| 0:53.2 | The Arab Israel comes on how you would do. |
| 0:57.3 | Palestinian-American Rashid Khalidi is a Middle East historian and author of the Hundred |
| 1:02.5 | Years War on Palestine. |
| 1:04.6 | The idea was to go and found a nation state which would be a Jewish state, a Jewish majority |
| 1:10.9 | state, a Jewish sovereign state. |
| 1:13.0 | Israel was established as a homeland for Jews, a refuge for people who faced persecution |
| 1:19.0 | throughout history, including the Holocaust just a few years before. |
| 1:24.3 | But in the war surrounding Israel's founding, the majority of Palestinian Arabs were permanently |
| 1:29.7 | displaced from their homeland, leaving their homes behind. |
| 1:33.9 | For them, the day is referred to as the Nakba, an Arabic word which means the catastrophe. |
| 1:40.9 | For Palestinians, it represents the destruction of their society, the loss of the right to |
| 1:44.9 | self-determination and the expulsion of most of them and the expropriation of the property |
| 1:49.7 | of most. |
| 1:50.7 | That's why it's a catastrophe for Palestinians. |
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