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NAKBA : An open wound

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I kept asking myself, what language does the war speak? What translation do those who oppress understand? People born and raised in hatred, can they ever shed the past and sit with the loss of Palestinian? Is acceptance too much to ask for, is liberation not a birthright? The history doesn't lie, it doesn't until it's made too. '48 Nakba , the Palestinian catastrophe, when almost two-thirds of the entire population was displaced, to make room for current Israeli residents. The very people who have nine generations buried in that land were made landless. Home addresses were ripped off of their existences. Those two-third, their grandchildren are the ones now waging a war for their rightful return. Meanwhile, a twisted ideology was so deeply engraved in current Israel, that no one is willing to have this conversation. When the peace solution is offered for Palestinians when the so-called concerned parties jump in, and that too after thousands are mentally and physically s...