Srilanka, May 16 -- How many Nakba days do we have to commemorate before freedom day dawns for the shackled Palestinians who are going through indescribable suffering at the hands of the world's most brutal regime, Israel?

Al Nakba means 'the catastrophe'. It began in 1948, months before Israel declared itself an independent country, the outcome of the 20th century's worst colonial crime, stemming from the sinister Balfour Declaration, which imperial Britain high-handedly issued in 1917.

Every year, on May 15, the Palestinians mourn Al Nakba, an event that marked the massacre of hundreds of people and ethnic cleansing of some 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from some 530 cities and villages, 77 years ago.

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