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Activists allied with the cause of Palestinian rights noted Israel’s alliance with colonial power France during the Algerian war of independence from 1954 to 1962 and criticized Israel as an occupier after the 1967 war.
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Marjorie N. Feld, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
Never have so many of them been killed and uprooted since the nakba, the catastrophe that befell them during Israel’s war of independence in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to give up their homes and became refugees.
—Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Spanning several decades, from 1940 to 2010, Messud follows the Cassar family, a fictional French Algerian clan first displaced by World War II, and again, nearly 20 years later, by Algeria’s war of independence.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
But its priests have historically been constrained by the anticlerical policies that took root during the 19th-century war of independence from Spain.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
There is no shortage of fury and disappointment directed at Mr. Biden in and around Detroit, where Palestinian Americans often display maps of pre-1948 Palestine and keys to family homes seized or abandoned during the Israeli war of independence.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
To anchor the new country in Anatolia, Ataturk picked as its new capital Ankara, which lay at the heart of the peninsular steppe and was his former headquarters during the Turkish war of independence.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
Angola fought a bitter war of independence from Portugal that turned into a 27-year civil war in 1975, after the country threw off colonial rule.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
During Israel’s war of independence, nearly 90% of the Bedouin then living in the Negev had to flee, mostly to Jordan.
—By
anat Peled, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
Marjorie N. Feld, The Conversation, 20 June 2024
Never have so many of them been killed and uprooted since the nakba, the catastrophe that befell them during Israel’s war of independence in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to give up their homes and became refugees.
—Tom Segev, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
Spanning several decades, from 1940 to 2010, Messud follows the Cassar family, a fictional French Algerian clan first displaced by World War II, and again, nearly 20 years later, by Algeria’s war of independence.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 May 2024
But its priests have historically been constrained by the anticlerical policies that took root during the 19th-century war of independence from Spain.
—Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
There is no shortage of fury and disappointment directed at Mr. Biden in and around Detroit, where Palestinian Americans often display maps of pre-1948 Palestine and keys to family homes seized or abandoned during the Israeli war of independence.
—Jennifer Medina, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
To anchor the new country in Anatolia, Ataturk picked as its new capital Ankara, which lay at the heart of the peninsular steppe and was his former headquarters during the Turkish war of independence.
—Soner Cagaptay, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
Angola fought a bitter war of independence from Portugal that turned into a 27-year civil war in 1975, after the country threw off colonial rule.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
During Israel’s war of independence, nearly 90% of the Bedouin then living in the Negev had to flee, mostly to Jordan.
—By
anat Peled, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
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