Sentence examples for the Palestinian catastrophe from inspiring English sources

He was the first ever student to research the Palestinian catastrophe.

Al Nakba [videorecording]: the Palestinian catastrophe, 1948 / a film by Benny Brunner and Alexandra Jansee [Israel]: Benny Brunner; Falls Church, Va.: Landmark Media, Inc., 1997.

Debby Farber is the curator of Zochrot NGO ("Remembering" in Hebrew), an Israeli organization working to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948.

They are seen as the representatives of British society and their invitation to the JNF will inevitably be seen as giving a royal seal of approval to the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe.

While this is not quite, as claimed, the first Arab novel to address the taboo of the Holocaust, others, such as Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun, have done so in the context of the Palestinian catastrophe.

I identified – in the article, and in a speech a few days later when the House was recalled – our role in the Palestinian catastrophe and the propping up of the dictators who ruled almost all of the Muslim world as being the twin reasons that some enraged Muslims were being drawn to Bin Laden.

Israel's independence became the Palestinians' catastrophe – the Nakba – in which half the country's Arabs were driven out or fled.

Today marks the 68th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe): the Palestinians' dispossession and the loss of their homeland.

Paradoxically, the Palestinian nakba (catastrophe) and the death of Fadwa's stern father, also in 1948, coincided with a sense of liberation for the poet.

He also wrote some of his masterpieces: Eleven Planets (1992) is a "lyric epic" sequence on 1492, the date of Columbus's voyage which destroyed the Native American world, and of the expulsion of Arabs from Andalucia, both parallels with the Palestinian nakba - catastrophe - the way Palestinians describe the creation of Israel in 1948.

The promise by Arthur Balfour, then foreign secretary, led to the British mandate, mass Jewish immigration and eventually to the creation of Israel in the wake of the second world war and the Holocaust, and to the Palestinian "Nakba" (catastrophe).