60th Anniversary: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Rula Odeh

Wed, 4 Aug 2021 12:50:54 GMT

My father, Sami Odeh, is one of hundreds of Palestinian-Canadians who survived the systematic ethnic cleansing carried out by Jewish militias and the Israeli army in Palestine in 1948. Over half the indigenous Palestinian population (800,000 people of Muslim and Christian faith) were forcibly expelled or terrorized into leaving, then prevented from returning to their homes and land. Why? Because they were not Jewish and the mission was to create an exclusively Jewish presence in the part of Palestine claimed by the nascent state of Israel.