Sentence examples for nakba from inspiring English sources

Whereas 80% had decried it five years ago as another stage in the nakba, or catastrophe, as Arabs call their dispossession by Israel in 1948, over a third were now reported to be in favour.Many reasons have been aired.

Opponents of the Palestinian state have joined Mr Lieberman's cohorts in defending the nakba bill.

For the Palestinians, it was the nakba, the Disaster: banishment from their ancestral homes as the innocent victims of aggressive Jewish nationalism.Time has mollified both these tales.

But his stone villa still stands, a mute and still-elegant reminder of a lost world, of Jaffa's glory days before the nakba.

On the other side, 15 Israeli soldiers had been injured, five from Palestinian gunshots.The al-Nakba anniversary always casts a sombre pall over Palestinians, wherever they are.

He told Fatah leaders last week that the prisoners must be the "central focus" of the al-Nakba demonstrations and instructed his negotiators to deal with no other issue in their talks with Israel.

They were marking al-Nakba day: the term Palestinians use for the "catastrophe" of Israel's establishment and their dispossession from most of Palestine.