What's the difference between nakba and palestinian?

Nakba


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The group’s first meeting concerned the Nakba Day protests, and a majority opposed any participation.
  • (2) On the Israeli side, awareness of the Nakba has grown in recent years thanks to myth-busting historical research and to the work of an organisation called Zochrot , though that does not translate into Jewish support for the return of Palestinian refugees.
  • (3) And no one can stop me.” Like many Palestinians whose families were displaced during the Nakba, Hinn said he could not see Jaffa as “Israel” but still as “Palestine”.
  • (4) I want to build in a control so that if, for example, you listen to an oral testimony from a Nakba refugee, you won’t be able to continue until you’ve also listened to a Holocaust refugee.
  • (5) It was followed at once by the outbreak of the first stage of the war that in 1948 secured Israel's independence and caused the Palestinian Nakba – the "catastrophe" – whose human and political consequences persist, through half a dozen more wars, to this day.
  • (6) We heard much about the Nakba from our parents and grandparents, about their suffering when forced to leave their country, at having lost everything,” he wrote.
  • (7) In 2011, he explained, the Israeli parliament passed a piece of legislation called the Nakba Law.
  • (8) Supported by right-leaning NGOs, it authorised the government to penalise any state-funded institution for organising events connected to Nakba day , which Palestinians observe alongside Israel’s independence day, in mid-May, to commemorate their displacement at the founding of the state.
  • (9) "In our Nakba you can negotiate, you can walk out of the prison.
  • (10) If a budgeted entity spends part of its resources on commemorating the Nakba, then the minister of finance has the authority to deduct up to three times the amount on the said action,” El-Ad said.
  • (11) As we approach the 68th anniversary of our catastrophe or Nakba , our occupiers need to acknowledge the wrong they did to us, apologise and pursue a genuine reconciliation, which may necessitate a very different political arrangement in historic Palestine.
  • (12) In May 2011, during the preparations for Nakba Day , which commemorates the expulsion of Palestinian refugees during the creation of Israel in 1948, representatives of the Assad regime began to promote the idea of a demonstration at the Israeli border on the Golan Heights.
  • (13) For the Arabs, it was the year of the Nakba [disaster] that led to the loss of their homes and lands.
  • (14) I lived in a culture where the Holocaust was not viewed in depth and was used artificially, linking it to the Nakba.
  • (15) "I told her that that is one way of making a distinction between our Nakba and their Holocaust," Dajani said.
  • (16) But on the morning of Nakba Day the government supplied buses, which hundreds of people got on.
  • (17) But Shavit might be the first such voice from deep inside the Zionist mainstream to speak so directly of the events the Palestinians regard as the nakba , the catastrophe.
  • (18) If I’m the director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque,” he said, “and you suggest a film festival with documentaries of the Nakba, I have to think: it could cause me trouble.
  • (19) The tools speak of a previous era and of one moment in particular: the day in 1948 when Hinn’s father, a barber, fled the coastal city of Jaffa with the tools of his trade in the midst of the event Palestinians mark as the Nakba – “catastrophe” – that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.
  • (20) In Hinn’s barbershop, evidence of the Nakba is still unusually present – even if his father did not like to talk to his children about his flight from Jaffa.

Palestinian


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Palestinean

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (2) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
  • (3) It said: “We will be seeking to inform and encourage dialogue about Israel and the Palestinians in the wider cultural and creative community.
  • (4) As long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to the release of the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of these agreements, while Israel continuously violates them,” Abbas said.
  • (5) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
  • (6) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
  • (7) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (8) Their brief was to eradicate cross-border raids by Palestinian fedayeen (guerrillas), yet many felt the overzealous Sharon was becoming a law unto himself.
  • (9) His speech at the United Nations has been seen as a move to placate growing discontents in Palestinian society.
  • (10) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
  • (11) Israel's control of a huge swath of the West Bank is costing the Palestinian economy $3.4bn (£2.1bn) a year, or 35% of its GDP, according to a report from the World Bank .
  • (12) If Obama issues the blueprint for an accord with the Palestinians for him, Bibi might just find a way to accept it.
  • (13) If I am elected,” Netanyahu promised the people of Israel, “ there will not be a Palestinian state .” True, it’s no secret that Netanyahu was not intending to support the establishment of a Palestinian state.
  • (14) All the Palestinian allegations that this is a violation are an attempt to create an artificial crisis.
  • (15) The family of Naftali Frenkel, one of the the murdered Israeli teenagers, has condemned the apparent revenge attack on a Palestinian teenager.
  • (16) Israel's illegal settlements are so entrenched that uprooting them to make way for a viable Palestinian state has become impossible.
  • (17) Children are stoned going to school and Palestinian shepherds and farmers are common targets for violence.
  • (18) Since Israel captured and annexed the Old City, including the compound, in the 1967 war, it has also become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
  • (19) Trump’s transition team reportedly told French diplomats they disapproved of the conference going ahead, seeing it as an attempt to put unfair pressure on Israel and give an unjustified reward to the Palestinians.
  • (20) A cabinet majority is pushing for a new law that would “legalize” the illegal Jewish outposts on the West Bank – illegal even by Israeli standards because they were built on private Palestinian land.

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