May 13, 2025 - Asia Commune

Israel’s Crimes in the West Bank: The Nineteenth Newsletter (2025)

May 13, 2025 Samantha

Malak Mattar (Palestine), If the Olive Tree Knew, 2025. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1948, the newly proclaimed Israeli government seized 78% of Palestinian land and expelled more than half of the population (750,00 people) from their villages and towns. This act disregarded United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (1947), which called for the termination of the colonial British Mandate and the partition of Palestine into a Palestinian and a Jewish state. This process came to be known as the Nakba (Catastrophe).…

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