Nakba
On May 15th, 1948, Israel declared independence as a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine, supported by the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Settlers had already been pouring into the area since the First Aliyah ("Return to Israel") of 1882-1903, encouraged by European Zionistic beliefs that originate in the attempt to "solve the Jewish problem" and reserve Europe for Christianity. In the name of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and blatant racism, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 8 million have been displaced, with conflicts increasing since the Hamas attack in 2023. Those attacks apparently justified the increased intensity in settler-colonialism, while the occupational conditions that baked such radicalization has been largely ignored or worse, biblically justified. Palestinians call May 15th, 1948, the Nakba or Catastrophe, because the laws of the world approved of their destruction and no one has dared help lest they be ...