The UN General Assembly this week passed a resolution to characterize the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1948 as a \u201ccatastrophe,\u201d in what has been heralded as a major victory for pro-Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n
The word \u201cNakba,\u201d which means catastrophe or disaster in Arabic, was also a term coined by the Palestinians to commemorate the Jewish state\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n
The UN resolution acknowledges the Palestinian version of the events that led to Israel\u2019s creation, and calls for the \u201ccommemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba,\u201d with a \u201chigh-level event\u201d at the global body on May 15th, 2023. May 15 is the day Palestinians mark the Nakba, which is the day after Israel\u2019s independence was declared in 1948.<\/p>\n
Egypt and Jordan have peace treaties with Israel, but that didn\u2019t stop them from co-sponsoring the resolution along with the Palestinians and Senegal, Yemen and Tunisia.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s new Arab allies from the Abraham Accords, including the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, all voted in favor of the anti-Israel resolution.<\/p>\n
The U.S. and several European countries, including the UK, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands voted against the resolution.<\/p>\n
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called it a \u201cshameful resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday the #UNGA passed a shameful resolution calling for an official event to commemorate the Palestinian \u2018Nakba\u2019 on the 75th Anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. \u201cBy passing such an extreme and baseless resolution, the UN is only helping to perpetuate the conflict.”<\/p>\n
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