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Source: http://jcpa.org/the-real-catastrophe-for-the-palestinians/
The Real Catastrophe for the Palestinians
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Pinhas Inbari - Every year on May 15, Palestinians commemorate Nakba ("Catastrophe") Day, referring to the displacement of Palestinians after Israel's independence in 1948. PLO leader Yasser Arafat inaugurated Nakba Day in 1998. One of the biggest problems the Palestinians face today is the growing feeling in the Arab world that the Palestinians are ungrateful. The Arab world, wracked by disasters and wars, complains that the Palestinians demand that Arab nations neglect their own crises and focus on "Palestinian suffering." By all measurements, the situation of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and definitely in Israel, is much better than in any Arab country. Only in the Israeli parliament can Palestinian parliamentarians speak and act freely. In these times, a real Nakba is taking place, but not in Israel. The disaster of Syria is far greater than the Nakba of 1948. Many thousands of Syrians and Palestinians have been displaced from the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, which once held more than 100,000 residents but was razed during the Syrian civil war. Hundreds of Palestinians and Syrians were killed there in fighting and barrel-bombings by Syrian forces.