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This Week In History: On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel was established, creating the largest refugee population in the world. According to Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, “Jewish forces expelled over a million Palestinians from their homes at gunpoint, massacred civilians and deliberately destroyed hundreds of Palestinian villages”.
Palestinians who escaped persecution from Jewish forces fled to Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. As a result, there are now 4.5 million Palestinian refugees without the right to return to their homes in the land now called Israel. Many refugees still retain old deeds and keys to homes now occupied by Israelis.
The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is known as al Nakba, the Palestinian Catastrophe, and is commemorated on Nakba Day on the 15th of May every year, the day after Israeli Independence Day on the Gregorian calendar.
Throughout its 64-year history, Israel has denied that al Nakba — which happened just years after the Holocaust — ever took place, and last year the government passed a fascist law that allows the denial of state funding to NGOs that participate in Nakba commemorations. In 2009, it banned the use of the term “Nakba” in school textbooks.
Photos: Top: Thousands of Palestinians throng the beach as they are forced out of their homeland / Bottom: An elderly Palestinian couple during the mass exodus, Palestine 1948 (UNRWA)
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You’re a fucking romantic.
You long for shy freckles,
vulnerability wrapped in sweaters,
maple syrup, books, and Sunday mornings
in (never out of) baggy blue jeans.
Don’t trip on your way around
sweaty nights with a someone in clothes.
Darker eyes that see dawn,
feet that…
Please.
You, are beautiful. I said it all the time, but I don’t think I truly understood who you were or what that actually meant. You fascinate me. I know next to nothing of the real you or the sphere you inhabit. Once, i thought i understood you perfectly and stopped trying to know you, big mistake. Each encounter with you i find myself nervous sometimes unsure of what to say or do of how i should act around you. My shell of dominating “confidence” has been cracked my ego deflated. My demanding fiery need to always be built up while tearing down what is close to me is died down. Let me get to know you better let me into this new place. I want, I am ready, to learn to listen to be open and honest to care. Whatever the nature, i need this relationship. With you.
Don’t stop chasing.
I think that one of the biggest reason why relationships do not work out in the long run is because at one point, one side (or both) stops trying. Before one claims another person as their significant other, they would do anything to make that person happy. They would chase, they would flirt, they would be charming. They would send daily morning and goodnight texts every time you wake up or go to sleep. They would write corny messages and pick up lines just to make sure that there is a smile upon your face. But once they claim you as theirs, all of those things eventually stop. The 5 page texts slowly turn into 1. The constant calls turn into not calling at all. And the lovely endearments turn into daily arguments. In order for a relationship to work, don’t ever stop chasing. Just because the person you want is now consider “yours”, it does not mean they deserve anything less than the time when you’re trying to win them over.
(Source: bbynicch3x, via thermon420)
