Palestinians all over the world will commemorate the tragic occasion known as the Nakba (catastrophe) when nearly 800 000 Palestinians were made refugees and nearly 500 towns and villages were ethnically cleansed of their inhabitants in historic Palestine between late 1947 and mid-1948.
The depopulation of Palestine carried on for months – in fact, years – after the Nakba was supposedly concluded. But the Nakba has never actually concluded. To this day, Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem, the southern Hebron hills, the Naqab Desert and elsewhere are still suffering the consequences of Israel’s quest for demographic supremacy. And, of course,
