Haviv Rettig Gur
It’s no accident that the anti-Israel campaign is also a war on history. What’s fascinating is that it didn’t have to be. It is entirely possible – even actually easier and more effective – to simply demand Palestinian independence. But that’s not enough. That’s not, in fact,
Hussain Abdul-Hussain
At least get the history right. Until the 1990s, the word Nakba did not describe Israel's independence. It described the Arab military defeat to Israel in 1949, when the Arabs -- against UN resolution stipulation -- refused the two state plan and tried to nip a nascent Israel in its bud. To verify this claim, consider that the Arab defeat in 1967, which was styled in a similar fashion, was called Naksa, which means a setback, as compared to Nakba, a disaster. Syrian Prof at AUB Constantine Zureik was the one who coined the term Nakba in his book The Meaning of the Nakba in which he said that it meant the defeat of seven Arab armies to Israel in 1949. Go read some history, and save our time and yours.