Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned

In a rebuttal to Michael Medved’s Daily Beast article on how the media distort the Mideast debate, Yousef Munayyer writes that the U.S. knew all along that the creation of Israel would endanger the Palestinian people.

Yousef Munayyer

Published May 25 2011 6:58AM EDT

articles/2011/05/25/nakba-denials-must-be-condemned/munayyer-nakba-day_183023_fhmire — Palestinians carry an injured boy after Israeli soldiers opened fire at the protesters who approached the Israeli border during a rally in the village of Maroun el-Rass, Lebanon on May 15, 2011. (Photo: Mohammed Zaatari / AP Photo)

When Palestinian refugees were gunned down by Israeli soldiers upon marching towards their homeland during unarmed Nakba Day demonstrations, the floodgates of historic revisionism opened.

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What is this ‘Nakba’? Where did these refugees come from? Who should be responsible for them? Readers undoubtedly raised these questions when the spilled blood of...

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Nakba Denials Must Be Condemned

In a rebuttal to Michael Medved’s Daily Beast article on how the media distort the Mideast debate, Yousef Munayyer writes that the U.S. knew all along that the creation of Israel would endanger the Palestinian people.

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Yousef Munayyer