Palestinian Ladies, Nazareth 1940

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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Don’t Forget Dier Yassin
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  • August 19, 2026

History of Palestine

A depopulated Palestinian village located 5 kilometers west of Jerusalem, Deir Yassin was entered by Zionist military organizations on April 9, 1948, and a massacre was perpetrated in which 107 people of all ages and backgrounds were killed.

This massacre became known as the “Deir Yassin Massacre,” an act of extermination and mass expulsion carried out during the 1948 war by the Zionist organizations Irgun and Stern.

Jews settled in the village in 1980, rebuilding it on the ruins of the original buildings and naming its streets after the Irgun fighters who carried out the massacre.

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Herman Melville, Palestine, 1857

From Palestinian Historiographical Research:

Palestine has millennial origins

The claim that “Palestine didn’t exist” is propaganda for fools. It contradicts the most basic documented historical evidence.

The term of millennial origin was commonly used by authors and routinely appeared on maps, travel books, and official documents.

Herman Melville used it naturally in 1857:

“All who cultivate the soil in Palestine are Arabs.”

The quote is recorded in his Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant.

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