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Why did the war in Gaza bring attention to the term ‘domicide’?
Amid fighting between Israel and Hamas, many Palestinians in Gaza equate the situation with ‘nakba’, Arabic for catastrophe, when the Palestinians were displaced by the Arab-Israeli war of 1948. Abdelsalam Al-Ghoul, a 30-year-old Palestinian who fled his home in Gaza, called Hamas’ attack an “honourable act” against Israeli oppression, but said Hamas “greatly misjudged the…
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There is an opinion about anti-Zionism and antisemitism
Israel’s defence minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday said the country would destroy Hamas in Gaza. This comes after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for ” Nakba 2″ (catastrophe), a reference to the mass displacement and flight of Palestinians before Israel’s creation in 1948, which Palestinians refer to as the “nakba”. She added that Israel will…