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May 16, 2023

By Marking “Nakba Day,” the UN Makes a Mockery of Its Own Rules and Resolutions

For Palestinians, Arab wars against Israel were the real disaster.

The United Nations held commemorations yesterday of the Nakba, the now-widespread term used by Palestinians to describe the birth of Israel. As Shany Mor explains, this Arabic word, literally meaning “disaster,” was originally employed to denote the catastrophic defeat of seven Arab armies at the hands of the fledgling Jewish state, but came to refer to the displacement of Palestinian refugees:

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