The Nakba, commemorated annually on this day as "Nakba Day", was the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948 following Israel's creation. Nakba Day protests take place around the world and have been attacked by Israel.
The foundational events of the Nakba took place during and shortly after the 1947-1949 Palestine war, including 78% of Mandatory Palestine being declared as Israel, the exodus of 700,000 Palestinians, the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian villages and subsequent geographical erasure, the denial of the Palestinian right of return, and the creation of permanent, stateless Palestinian refugees.
Although May 15th had been used as an unofficial commemoration of the Nakba since 1949, Nakba Day was formalized in 1998 after Yasser Arafat proposed that Palestinians should mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba during the First Intifada.
The Nakba was a key event in the development of Palestinian culture and is a foundational symbol of Palestinian identity, along with "Handala", a ten-year old cartoon character developed by Naji al-Ali; the keffiyeh, a checkered black and white scarf worn around the head; and the "symbolic key" (many Palestinian refugees have kept the keys to the homes they were forced to flee).
On Nakba Day 2011, Palestinians and other Arabs from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria marched towards their respective borders, or ceasefire lines and checkpoints in Israeli-occupied territories, to mark the event. At least twelve Palestinians and supporters were killed and hundreds wounded as a result of shootings by the Israeli Army.
"In resisting the Nakba, the Palestinians have struck at the heart of the Zionist project that insists that the Nakba be seen as a past event. In resisting Israel, Palestinians have forced the world to witness the Nakba as present action; one that, contrary to Zionist wisdom, is indeed reversible." - Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad
Palestinian Refugees Answer Questions about the Nakba :palestine-strong:
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1 | Featured Documentary :palestine-heart:
Farha (2021) internationally co-produced historical drama film about a Palestinian girl's coming-of-age experience during the Nakba, the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homeland. Its on Netflix :palestine-heart:
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I'm starting to think audio people are just bullshitters on the level of wine tasters. Just making up terms and stuff to sound smart and important when it's all just down to preference. Uh, yeah, the upper midders sound really low on the equalizer frequency scale. You'll want to buy a headset with a different planar magnet matrix that support a lower midrange.
Ah yes this equalizer has oaky, floral notes on my lobes :quark:
Nah, it makes sense, it’s just after roughly 200 bucks, it’s taste and you can eq it, headphone can deal with it at that point.
But obviously people searching for -100 db of whatever or crystalline cables are just rich nerds
I did need to order the little antenna that extends the bluetooth for my motherboard. I had it, it came with it. But I had it in a box and thought "I won't need this" and then the box got water damaged and I tossed it out :deeper-sadness: