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Abbas signs decree criminalizing ‘Nakba’ denial

2023-05-31

[IsraelTimes] PA executive order says anyone found guilty of denying what it calls ’crime against humanity’ carried out by ’Zionist gangs’ in 1948 faces up to 2 years in jail

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
has signed a presidential decree that criminalizes denying the Paleostinian "Nakba" surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948.

The decree states that anyone found guilty of denying the "catastrophe" inflicted upon Paleostinians by Zionist forces in 1948 will face up to two years in jail. It defines the "Nakba" as "a crime against humanity" carried out by the "Zionist gangs," Israel’s Channel 12 reported.

The decree appeared to be an extension of a more hardline approach Abbas has taken in recent years as he grapples with the apparent failure of his effort to secure a sovereign Paleostinian state alongside Israel on the pre-1967 lines through largely diplomatic means.

At a speech this month before the UN General Assembly during its first-ever event marking Nakba Day, Abbas donned a key pin on his lapel symbolizing the Paleostinian desire to return to the homes they lost during the 1948 Independence War. Abbas, who previously spoke about his recognition that he would not be able to return to his birth town of Safed, told the UN that he desired to do just that.

Similar hard-lining trends appear to be taking place in Israel, where coalition politicians have proposed legislation that would outlaw waving Paleostinian flags. Right-wing politicians have long rejected the Paleostinian narrative of a Nakba, with some warning Paleostinians that they will inflict another Nakba upon them if they continue waving Paleostinian flags.

Posted by:trailing wife

#4 It need not have been a disaster, had they chosen to figure out a way to live with their neighbours instead of clinging to the illusion that the rest of the Arab world regarded them as brothers deserving rescue rather than despising them as tools.

Posted by: trailing wife 2023-05-31 23:50

#3 Brits and Irish

Posted by: Old Salty 2023-05-31 18:35

#2 This does't appear to be much than different then the Brits and Irish! So it should only take another 122 years to settle the problem. The major difference is that the Brits and English are both civilized.

Posted by: Old Salty 2023-05-31 18:34

#1 Nakba is a term first associated with Constantine Zarayk, history professor, American University of Beirut, who used the term shortly following the Arab defeat of 1948 in his book Maana el Nakbet (Lesson of the Disaster). Many thought the term ephemeral. It was not.

Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2023-05-31 08:01

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