Israeli official says Arabs need to be reminded of Nakba
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Former spokesman for Israeli occupation Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Itamar Fleischmann, stated on Wednesday that “it is time to start reminding” Arabs of the Nakba.
Israel’s Jerusalem Post reported that during a panel on Channel 14, Fleischmann stated that “the Arabs have forgotten about the Nakba and it is time to start reminding them of it.”
“[We] need to tell them that if they do not get a hold of themselves soon..their next station is on the other side of the Jordan or in the Yarmouk [Refugee] Camp in Syria,” he added.
The former spokesman claimed that this would happen “if [things] continue as they are.”
In October, leader of the religious Zionist Party and member of the Knesset, Bezalel Smotrich, also said that Palestinians exist in ‘Israel’ because Israel’s first prime minister David Ben Gurion did not “finish the job” of clearing out the territory of its indigenous populations.
Ben Gurion was the architect of the Nakba.
Palestinians refer to it as “Al Nakba”, which literally translates as “The Catastrophe”. It refers to the mass exodus of at least 750,000 Arabs from Palestine.
The occupation state is often accused of being in denial over the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes prior to its founding.
Some 750,000, more than half the indigenous, Muslim and Christian population, were expelled in what many historians have descried as deliberate ethnic cleansing, designed to artificially construct a Jewish majority in historic Palestine.
