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    Today is the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, i.e. the Destruction of Palestine in 1948. This year the anniversary coincides with the eight-month war in the Gaza Strip. In a military campaign that began in late 1947, culminated in the 1948 war, approximately 13,000 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, 530 Palestinian villages were destroyed, […]

  • Spain, Ireland, Slovenia to Recognize Palestinian State

    (JNS) – Spain, Ireland and other European Union countries plan to recognize a Palestinian state on May 21, Brussels’ foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed on Thursday. He was speaking ahead of a U.N. General Assembly vote on Friday on a resolution that would grant the Palestinians additional perks, following the Security Council’s rejection of their […]

  • Salman Rushdie: ‘Free Palestine Is a Taliban-Like State’

    (JNS) – Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie warned on Sunday that a Palestinian state would be a Taliban state, speaking in an interview with Germany’s Bild newspaper. “[I]f there were a Palestinian state now, it would be run by Hamas and we would have a Taliban-like state. A satellite state of Iran. Is this what […]