2020-11-21 | By middleeastmonitor | 92 Hits

At the start of this year in this column I argued that the annexation of the West Bank was coming one way or another The West Bank and the Gaza Strip were the remaining 22 per cent of historic Palestine left for the Palestinians in 1949 after the ceasefire between Israel and the Arab states Between 1947 and 1949 Zionist militias and then the newlyfounded Israeli army the former flowed into the latter forcibly expelled some 800000 Palestinians This massive act of ethnic cleansing 8211 the Nakba 8211 was the founding act of the state >>READ MORE