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The population figure under the village names represented the number of people displaced from their homes, not necessarily killed. Sorry about that.
The Nakba is "the biggest human tragedy"? Greater than World War I with tens of millions dead? Greater than World War II with 50 million dead and tens of millions of refugees created worldwide? Greater than the Killing Fields of Cambodia with their millions dead and refugees? Greater than the victims of Mao's "Great Leap Forward"? Greater than the 11 million starved to death under Stalin? Greater than the Holocaust, with 6 million Jews dead?
Get a grip!
I'm sure it wasn't meant like that. We're not trying to compete on some sort of world inhumanity scale as you appear to be doing, just trying to remeber communities that were destroyed
"Greater than World War II with 50 million dead and tens of millions of refugees created worldwide? Greater than the 11 million starved to death under Stalin? Greater than the Holocaust, with 6 million Jews dead? "
The 50M number for WWII includes those killed in the labour and concentration camps as well as many of those killed by Stalin. What exactly is your point? Are you suggesting the Jewish victims in the concentration camps were killed twice? Are their deaths twice as significant?
I put it to you that what you are really suggesting is that past Jewish suffering justifies the suffering that they are visiting on the Palestinians.
At least Hitlers regieme only lasted around 10 years opposed by the whole world, not the 60 years of suffering generations of Palestinans have had inflicted on them by an opportunist and expansionist Israel backed by the most influential and richest countries in the world.
The closest comparison of the Palestinians plight is that of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia invaded, pillaged and forcibly settled by the Russians until their empire eventually imploded.
It was not intended as an insult to the many other tragedies that have occured: simply portraying another example of human atrocities. It was about remembering the communities who perished under these particular circumstances.