From Tantura to Naqab: Israel’s Long Hidden Truths Are Finally Revealed
February 12, 2022
TL;DR excerpts
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75 years of Israel’s painstaking efforts aimed at hiding the truth about its origins and its current racially-driven apartheid regime are failing miserably
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Tantura, a peaceful Palestinian village whose inhabitants were mostly exterminated [murdered] by Israel’s Alexandroni Brigade on May 23, 1948
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some Alexandroni Brigade veterans have finally decided to confess to the crimes in Tantura.
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Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Tantura in cold blood. They were buried in mass graves, the largest of which is believed to be under a parking lot at the Dor beach, flocked by Israeli families daily.
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However, this is not the story of Tantura alone. The latter is a representation of something much bigger, of mass-scale ethnic cleansing, forceful evictions and mass killing
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In 1951, the Israeli army launched a full-scale military operation that ethnically cleansed Palestinian Bedouins from the Naqab
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In 1953, Israel passed the so-called Land Acquisition Law, which allowed the Israeli state to seize the land of the Palestinians who were forced out of their homes. By then, Israel had unlawfully expropriated 247,000 dunums in the Naqab, with 66,000 remaining "unutilized." The remaining land is currently the epicenter of an ongoing saga involving Palestinian Bedouin communities in Israel and the Israeli government,..
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"There was an organized transfer of Bedouin citizens from the northwestern Negev eastward to barren areas, with the goal of taking over their lands.
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"Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has pursued an explicit policy of establishing and maintaining a Jewish demographic hegemony .. while minimizing the number of Palestinians and restricting their rights," the report stated. This could only happen through mass killing, ethnic cleansing and genocide, from Tantura to the Naqab, to the Moroccan Quarters, to Gaza and Sheikh Jarrah.
https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2022/02/11/from-tantura-to-naqab-israels-long-hidden-truths-are-finally-revealed/