Commentary – Recent History

In this commentary Russell Means talks about historical developments of his lifetime including unions, liberations movements and civil rights. Also addressed is the government’s reactionary measures and some of their manifestations as it moved to keep control, and power from the people.

Russell Means TV Interview on RoL

CLICK TO VIEW VIDEO: Russell Means is interviewed about the unilateral withdrawal from the Treaties with the U.S.

The Truth about Palestine

• 60 years of Misery & Ethnic-cleansing

• 7 wars

• 5 million Palestinian Refugees

• 3 million Occupied

• 1.5 million Abducted / Hostages

• 254 km of an Apartheid Wall

• 562 Humiliation Check Points

• 20,000 Political Prisoners

• 400 Children Held in Israeli Dungeons

• 468,831 New Settlers on Occupied Land

• Disappearance of Palestine

• Number of World Leaders in UN Violations = 69

1948 Palestinian Exodus – View the Video

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History

The history of the Palestinian exodus is closely tied to the events of the war in Palestine, which lasted from 1947 to 1949. Many factors played a role in bringing it about. Ruins of the Palestinian village of Suba, near Jerusalem, overlooking Kibbutz Zova, which was built on the village lands.

 

The 1948 Palestinian exodus (A al-Hijra al-Filasteeniya), referred to by Palestinians as al Nakba or al Naqba, meaning the “disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm,”[1][2][3] refers to the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem during and after the 1948 Palestine war.

History

The history of the Palestinian exodus is closely tied to the events of the war in Palestine, which lasted from 1947 to 1949. Many factors played a role in bringing it about. Ruins of the Palestinian village of Suba, near Jerusalem, overlooking Kibbutz Zova, which was built on the village lands.

For more information on the historical context, see Zionism, Palestinian nationalism, United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181, 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

By 1951, the United Nations (UN) estimated 711,000 Palestinian refugees existed outside Israel,[4] with about one-quarter of the estimated 160,000 Arab Palestinians remaining in Israel as “internal refugees.” Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants are estimated to number more than 4 million people.[5]

Historians have argued over the causes of the Palestinian exodus. In early decades following the exodus, two diametrically opposed schools of analysis could be distinguished. The