A man walks next to the area, marked by an ancient Cyprus tree, where the family house of Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas used to stand in the northern Israeli city of Safed, Wednesday Jan. 5, 2005. Abbas was one of 700,000 Palestinians made refugees by the cataclysmic events of 1948 that saw the birth of Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
cat·a·clysm n. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust. A devastating flood.cataclysmic adj : severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
-------------------------------------------------------[French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmos, deluge, from Greek kataklusmos, from katakluzein, to inundate : kata-, intensive pref.; see cata- + kluzein, to wash away.]
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I think that's "cypress" tree, but never mind. What's important to know is that Had the Arabs accepted the 1947 UN resolution, not a single Palestinian would have become a refugee.
And according to the Arabs themselves at the time,
"The Zionist aggression resulted in the exodus of more than a quarter of a million of its Arab inhabitants from their homes and in taking refuge in the neighbouring Arab countries." -- from the Statement by the Arab League States following the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 15, 1948
hmmm and grrrrr.....
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