This year, the Nakba commemoration comes at the same time that Palestine awaits the visit of H.H. Pope Francis. As H.H. arrives in Palestine, thousands of Palestinian Christians will be marking the beginning of their exile. Palestinian Christians, around 12% of the population of Palestine by 1948, were devastated by the Nakba, as entire communities were expelled from their historic homeland. To this day, Israel has yet to recognize its responsibility for the role it played in the creations and perpetuation of the Nakba..... Palestinians Christians, like all Palestinians, were devastated by the Nakba. We call on the Pope to support our efforts in realizing these fundamental Palestinian human rights.That's funny, because to this day, the PLO refuses to recognize its own part in ensuring that Palestinian Arabs remain stateless and in misery today - by insisting that those who want to become citizens in the countries of their birth be denied that right, by insisting that Syrians of Palestinian descent are better off dead than giving up the "right of return," and by purposefully keeping tens of thousands of people in "refugee camps" even in territories that the PA controls!
The document says that there were 800,000 Palestinian Arabs who were displaced in by the war in 1948 - the real number is closer to 600,000.
The document claims that 254 were killed in Deir Yassin. The real number is 107.
The document claims that Plan Dalet was intended to depopulate Palestinian Arabs from the land. That is a lie.
And, of course, the document says nothing about how horribly Christians have been treated under Arab, including PA, rule, to the point of Christians leaving the area in droves. They claim that Israelis targeted churches in 1948 but say nothing about how their heroes targeted and destroyed scores of synagogues.
The fact is that the only places that were ethnically cleansed in 1948 were the Old City of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and Gaza - cleansed of Jews. And that is how the PLO envisions their state as well, as being Judenfrei.
Someone ought to tell that to the Pope.
(h/t Missing Peace)