{"title":"The Nakba Explained: Why Israel Won't Win","slug":"the-nakba-explained-why-israel-wont-win","author":"Dr. Omar Suleiman","abstract":"Dr. Omar Suleiman describes the history of modern-day Palestine, starting with the Nakba (Arabic word for “Catastrophe”) that began with the murder of 15,000 and the expulsion of over 750,000 from their homeland on May 15th, 1948. Displaced Palestinians have since kept the keys to those homes they...","topics":["Politics & Practical Theology","Social Justice"],"published_date":"2024-05-20 15:28:06","video_url":"https://youtu.be/_eI7IDXC8Es","transcript_summary":"**What happened during the Nakba?**","key_points":["The establishment of Israel required the mass ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian population. This Nakba saw over 750,000 people expelled, more than 500 villages destroyed, and repeated massacres over seven decades. The displacement is widely recognized by international organizations, the UN, and most of the world.","The founding claim that Palestine was \"a land without a people for a people without a land\" erases a documented historical Palestine of over a million people with their own culture, dress, currency, and legacy. Alongside the physical displacement, Palestinian voices have been suppressed abroad because their existence is inconvenient to the narrative of Zionism as an innocent return to an ancient homeland.","The expelled have refused to forget, holding onto the keys of their homes as a symbol of their insistence on full existence and self-determination. Against the expectation that Palestinians would eventually move on, the commitment to return and to a free Palestine endures."],"chapters":null,"series_name":"Explained","url":"https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/explained/the-nakba-explained-why-israel-wont-win?utm_source=webmcp&utm_medium=ai-agent&utm_campaign=content-discovery"}