PA daily op-ed: Israel’s establishment by "Nazi Zionist units" was “worst crime in history” and will end
Op-ed by Baha Rahal. Headline: “The Nakba”
“65 years, and the pain has not stopped, the occupation has not disappeared and the sorrow in our hearts has not subsided. The world never supported truth or acted justly towards the victim, but continued supporting the criminal, the murderer and the oppressor. It continued to adopt the occupation and its ideology and support its policy of racism and settlement and its acts, which were based on a theory of uprooting an entire nation from its land and country. This world is still an accomplice to the biggest crime since this entity was imposed on us and on our soil and committed the worst crime in history…
May 15 is Nakba Day, the day of exile, the day of expulsion and uprooting the Palestinian people from its soil and homeland, from its towns and its villages destroyed by the Hagana and Stern units (i.e., Jewish pre-state armed defense units), and other Nazi Zionist units, that expelled the inhabitants by armed force, wanton killing and bloodshed. ..
They carried out dozens of massacres against the inhabitants, the owners of the land, which they burned and seized using all methods. And so it happened that an entire nation was exiled, while the world remained silent and the confused Arab armies were dismayed as they retreated before the greatest theft in history, before the most criminal act humanity has ever seen...
[This occurred] with premeditated, evil intent and in accordance with commitments from Western countries who hide beneath pretentions of culture, democracy and values of tolerance. They gave these criminal groups cover and facilitated settlement in a land that is not theirs, to which they have no right, and will never have [any right] …
65 years, and we have not forgotten the warm breeze. We have not forgotten the hymn of life in you, oh Palestine. We remember you… As long as we remain far from you, until we return, and life is renewed within us and renewed within you, and all the transient ones [Israelis] will leave.”
Note: The Nakba - “the catastrophe,” Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel.