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Palestinian dispossession continues unabated; The mean has inherited the Earth? By Raj Gonsalkorale   Palestinians will yet again commemorate the Nakba (‘catastrophe’), a term that refers to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 and the Palestinians’ loss of their homeland. The mass expulsion of Palestinians was overwhelming in its scope. Arab Palestine was erased and replaced with Jewish Israel. It is estimated that between 750,000 and 900,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes and became refugees in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. About 500 villages were destroyed and Palestinian cities were purged of their Arab residents. Only 160,000 Palestinians remained in what became Israel – Dr Lana Tatour, Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales The West as well as Russia and China have looked on with feigned disdain while Israel has continued the dispossession of Palestinians from their own homeland ...