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Last update - 14:27 29/04/2009
Israeli Arabs mark 61st anniversary of Nakba
By Yoav Stern and Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Nakba, Israeli Arabs 

Hundreds of Israeli Arabs on Wednesday visited the sites of Palestinian villages that had been demolished during the War of Independence as part of the Nakba Day events, which commemorate the defeat of the Palestinian Arab community in the war.

The main commemoration event took place in the site of the demolished Palestinian village of Kafrayn, near Haifa. Numerous police deployed in the area in a bid to pre-empt clashes between Arabs and Jewish protesters, who arrived at the scene early in the morning.

Hadash Chairman MK Mohammed Barakeh visited the Galilee village of Saffuriyeh, today the Jewish Moshav of Tzipori, where his ancestors lived.
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"Their Independence Day is our Nakba [catastrophe]," he said. "Passing our heritage from one generation to the next is essential for our steadfastness and survival in our homeland. Our survival is not open to interpretation or negotiation, and is our formative feature as a community that narrowly escaped the threat of expulsion and remained in its country."

Barakeh vowed that the villages would be rebuilt.

"History might have neglected the Right of Return, but we never will," he said.

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      1.   the Jewish Nakba--the year 634 CE 15:31  |  bob 29/04/09
      2.   Each day that passes... 15:38  |  Matty Groves 29/04/09
      3.   The Great Destruction 16:09  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
      4.   Nakba commemorates what??? 16:10  |  Ben 29/04/09
      5.   Lieberman is right 16:11  |  SAC 29/04/09
      6.   Recognize the Palestinian Nakba. 16:14  |  Lou Medel 29/04/09
      7.   If they don`t like it, LEAVE!! 16:17  |  Robert 29/04/09
      8.   Nakba? No Village Was Destroyed On That Day in 1948 16:31  |  Eli 29/04/09
      9.   Sullivan - "The Great Destruction" 16:39  |  Christopher 29/04/09
      10.   Nakba is a fake 16:49  |  Boris 29/04/09
      11.   The real nakba 16:54  |  Great White North 29/04/09
      12.   Who caused the Nakba? 16:58  |  SAC 29/04/09
      13.   Palestinian Nationalism Is Very Similiar To Canadian Nationalism 17:05  |  Eli 29/04/09
      14.   nakba is a fake 17:15  |  larry from delaware 29/04/09
      15.   Reply to # 8 17:15  |  Shelly 29/04/09
      16.   Yaakov 17:19  |  Benny 29/04/09
      17.   Matty Groves read your history books 17:28  |  Scott L. Havsy 29/04/09
      18.   #2 17:30  |  Jane 29/04/09
      19.   Its amazing that nakba denial still exists 61 years later 17:31  |  Tarik 29/04/09
      20.   nakba is when Jordan refused to take the palestinens ... 17:39  |  Rachel 29/04/09
      21.   Boris as Amalek 17:46  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
      22.   #18 17:50  |  Jane 29/04/09
      23.   Nakba denial equals Holocaust denial... 17:53  |  BBSNews 29/04/09
      24.   Nakaba 17:54  |  richard 29/04/09
      25.   Eli knows little about Palestinian nationalism 17:59  |  Ben Alofs 29/04/09
      26.   #20 17:59  |  Jane 29/04/09
      27.   Take note and learn 18:03  |  Ilan 29/04/09
      28.   You are right, Tarik 18:04  |  Ben Alofs 29/04/09
      29.   # 18 Tarik - nobody denies your "naqba" - the unsuccessful 18:09  |  17 29/04/09
      30.   Read "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" 18:20  |  Binyamin 29/04/09
      31.   Peace will start when there is a memorial for every destroyed 18:28  |  Kris Lazar 29/04/09
      32.   PAL`s - thank your father & grandfathers 18:33  |  david 29/04/09
      33.   larry, another ignorant American 18:36  |  Marilyn 29/04/09
      34.   #7 Eli of Canada 18:50  |  Lou Medel 29/04/09
      35.   Nakba? 18:55  |  Hans 29/04/09
      36.   To B.S. News. `Minor` correction 18:59  |  flyingdoc57 29/04/09
      37.   #24 19:03  |  Jane 29/04/09
      38.   loyaty oath 19:09  |  ben 29/04/09
      39.   Response to Ben #24 19:13  |  SAC 29/04/09
      40.   There was no genocide against the Palestinians 19:20  |  Josh 29/04/09
      41.   Was the 1945 expulsion of 12 Million Germans a Teutonic Nakba? 19:21  |  Tomer 29/04/09
      42.   they should have listened to our prayers for over 1000 years 19:38  |  jr 29/04/09
      43.   Tarik 19:41  |  Alex 29/04/09
      44.   Nakba was a "disaster" 19:47  |  RfaelMoshe 29/04/09
      45.   Yaakov Sullivan, Israel`s independence is a great day for the 20:11  |  James O`shea 29/04/09
      46.   #33, better you don`t respond 20:12  |  howiej 29/04/09
      47.   What does this say about the loyalty of these Israeli Arabs? 20:14  |  Chaim 29/04/09
      48.   Oh Lou -You Always Find The... 20:37  |  Eli 29/04/09
      49.   self-inflicted Naqba 21:15  |  judith 29/04/09
      50.   #41 Tomer 21:27  |  PCR 29/04/09
      51.   Don`t forget to wear the keys to closets! 21:53  |  Baruch Gold 29/04/09
      52.   Arabs refuse to accept reality... 21:54  |  bat yam 29/04/09
      53.   To desinformed Bob #1 21:56  |  Amir 29/04/09
      54.   To Flying doc #36 22:00  |  Amir 29/04/09
      55.   Not only palestinians(jordanians) do not belong to 22:18  |  daniel 29/04/09
      56.   Eli denies the Nakba and reality... 22:27  |  BBSNews 29/04/09
      57.   Surprising 22:39  |  Peter 29/04/09
      58.   Tarik=Incomprehensible 22:51  |  utagawa 29/04/09
      59.   Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba, Nakba ... 23:00  |  Nakba 29/04/09
      60.   arabs in Israel and Nakba 23:05  |  charro 29/04/09
      61.   Tomer #41: I don`t think fascists in Israel will agree with you 23:11  |  Paul 29/04/09
      62.   Tzipori (Saffuriyeh) 23:11  |  Gil 29/04/09
      63.   Nakba, knockwurst and "knock-knock, who`s there???" 23:16  |  Akiva P 29/04/09
      64.   To BBSNews 23:17  |  Yosi 29/04/09
      65.   History revised, read & learn 23:30  |  jennifer 29/04/09
      66.   Tzipori (Saffuriyeh) 23:39  |  Gil 29/04/09
      67.   Naqba - words by an Israeli member of Parliament 23:40  |  Aicha 29/04/09
      68.   Amir from Stockholm - your statement has no base 23:42  |  17 29/04/09
      69.   Naqba - to BBS News 23:46  |  Aicha 29/04/09
      70.   BBSnews - "Check 194, 242 and 338." 23:48  |  17 29/04/09
      71.   Palestinians left because they did not want to live in Israel 23:51  |  Izzy 29/04/09
      72.   Big BS 00:03  |  Philippe 30/04/09
      73.   Amir 00:06  |  Philippe 30/04/09
      74.   Suffering, 00:13  |  AK 30/04/09
      75.   utagawa really you don`t know the meaning of nakba?? 00:23  |  Izzy 30/04/09
      76.   5th Column 00:30  |  Jew in Exile 30/04/09
      77.   I was there 00:55  |  Jackie 30/04/09
      78.   sullivan -hard to respond without going ad hominim 00:55  |  Adam 30/04/09
      79.   Does BBS stand for "BullBullS---" 01:03  |  Ben 30/04/09
      80.   BBS: A continuous fountain of hypocrisy 02:28  |  utagawa 30/04/09
      81.   Israeli Arabs Should Thank Their Lucky Stars 02:28  |  Brad 30/04/09
      82.   If the arab minority 02:38  |  Lola 30/04/09
      83.   Any sane society would strip them of citizenship 02:47  |  mark 30/04/09
      84.   THEY Could be celebrating peaceful prosperous state of Palestine 02:48  |  PETER SM 30/04/09
      85.   BBSNews....We don`t deny Nakba! Their ancestors 03:19  |  Maria 30/04/09
      86.   BBSNews , Naqba is nothing compare to Holocaust! 03:25  |  Maria 30/04/09
      87.   #1, your Samaritan can of worms 05:42  |  Ariel 30/04/09
      88.   Even when presented with irrefutable 05:54  |  janine 30/04/09
      89.   If they are so proud. send them to live with their brothers. 06:22  |  Alfredo 30/04/09
      90.   TO No 2. Educate yourself. 06:29  |  Alfredo 30/04/09
      91.   larry from delaware; Nakba is fake...; 07:36  |  Deacon2 30/04/09
      92.   The villages will be built. 09:24  |  Steve the Pals. 30/04/09
      93.   68. Which of the statements ? 19:18  |  Amir 30/04/09
      94.   #19 exactly right 20:35  |  T A Sheppard 30/04/09
      95.   #43 Alex 20:42  |  T A Sheppard 30/04/09
      96.   1 umm wrong 23:56  |  Research 30/04/09
      97.   A question 21:08  |  HebZz 07/05/09
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