zionism_unsettled_scan
zionism_unsettled_scan
zionism_unsettled_scan
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Nakln I. tho Arabic word 'Ol ·Cata.trop"." and nda .. to the m ... iv. ethnlt<br />
dNIISIr.g 01 over 750,000 Pal.sUnlan" tho confiscation of P.I •• ~nl.n land,<br />
_"" the de.tnJction 01 o •• r 500 pa\eSllnlon ~iII.ge, by 1$< •• li force. In 1947·<br />
48 who. the Brid,1I vacated Pale,tino and Isr ••' b.,.me •• tabl. The lI.brow<br />
term for tho N .. lIloIO!. Shoo/l, .I"'tr.n.l.te~.' "cata'lropho." The Inlortinians live ,nd rue in Gaza and the<br />
West Bank come a, the result of 'peCLfic poliCLes,<br />
leadcrs or parties on either side of the impaSSe<br />
Th< problem is fundamontal' Founding a modern<br />
state on a ,ingle ethnic orreligious identlty in a<br />
temtory that i5 ethnically and reh[llo"sly dl\'erse<br />
l.ad. either to politics of eXdu5ion ... or to whole·<br />
""Ie ethnic cleanSing. Put .imply, the problom i,<br />
ZIOnism.'<br />
Within the pa,! few }'e