Mazin Qumsiyeh
17 May 2011
My family updated you using my email on what happened on Nakba day (the three messages are now posted at my blog http://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2011/05/nakba-events-and-arrest-of-dr-qumsiyeh.html). Hundreds of us were kidnapped by the apartheid soldiers from demonstration and hundreds were injuried and scores were martyred. Before I give my report I wanted to thank every one who took action. I have far too many emails to thank each of you who wrote me and I do not know who are the hundreds of others who called or wrote to officials, media etc (I do know from inside information that hundreds did write just to the US embassy as an example). The level of communication and action around Nakba was inspiring and critical around the world. Ben Gurion said about the ethjnic cleansing of Palestine that “the old will die and the young will forget”. Coming on the heels of an Israeli Knesset law to bar and suppress any comemorations of the Nakba, the day would actually turn out to be amazing. This day was the most important May 15 event since the weeks after May 15, 1948 when thousands of refugees “infiltrated” (as the Zionists labeled it) the borders to return to their homes and lands (a return that also meant many of them were shot on sight or re-expelled).
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