The #GreatReturnMarch highlights a number of critical issues - like the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
But, as the name suggests, it is mainly about Israel's ongoing refusal to allow Palestinian refugees to return home.
And here's something a lot of people forget, or don't realise.
But, as the name suggests, it is mainly about Israel's ongoing refusal to allow Palestinian refugees to return home.
And here's something a lot of people forget, or don't realise.
Of the approximately 5.8 million UN-registered Palestinian refugees, just over 40 percent – two in five – actually live under direct Israeli (military) rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
These Palestinian refugees, therefore, are present within today’s single apartheid state reality, but alienated from their lands and properties by Israeli law and by force.
In fact, the *majority* of Palestinian refugees, even including those in neighbouring states, live within a short distance of where they were expelled and dispossessed.
So, for example: Palestinians expelled from Najd - now Sderot - are just 6 miles away, in Gaza's Jabaliya camp
So, for example: Palestinians expelled from Najd - now Sderot - are just 6 miles away, in Gaza's Jabaliya camp
Or take the Palestinian village of Miska, ethnically cleansed by Israeli forces in 1948.
Today, its inhabitants & their descendants live anywhere between a few to a few dozen miles away. But around half are either Israeli citizens or in the West Bank.
arenaofspeculation.org/2011/05/18/pla…
Today, its inhabitants & their descendants live anywhere between a few to a few dozen miles away. But around half are either Israeli citizens or in the West Bank.
arenaofspeculation.org/2011/05/18/pla…
What is the main point here? That the Palestinian refugees' return is not just a physical question but one of transforming discriminatory structures.
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