Jerusalem Event Counters UN Celebration of Palestinian Nakba Campaign against Israel

On May 15th, the United Nations hosted an event marking the "Nakba," an Arabic word meaning catastrophe. Palestinians use that term to describe what happened to them when the State of Israel was born in 1948. Recently, another meeting held in Jerusalem showed a very different view of history. The event at the United Nations' New York headquarters included ambassadors from dozens of nations, and featured Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. During his remarks, Abbas compared Israel to Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels and declared the Nakba is ongoing. Yet, attendees at a "Declaration Day" gathering in Jerusalem insist that the real catastrophe is the Palestinian Authority's half-century of attempts to eliminate Israel as a nation.