What was the 1948 Nakba ?
< . . . a US Presidential Office-led population displacement and replacement. One said at the time to be of benefit the domestic political position of the Office. Notwithstanding it’s clear illegality, from every perspective of the International Law AND notwithstanding the amply-documented-and-trenchant opposition of the US Department of State.
That such population “displacements/turnarounds” have been a recurring feature in the course of the steamy history of the USA will be evident to any alert reader-of-history. To wit:
Some dream of times resurgence
As afore, when Cherokee
Felt wrath, the US Jackson
to the east of Tennessee
Afore, Their Time travail
Afore, as a men still free
Possessed of a sovereign purpose
of a native dignity
Perceived by the artful Jackson
as a host beyond the pale
One imbibed with a zest presumptive
as ‘a potent force canaille’
For these, ‘a freemen worthy’
once deemed: “not of his kind”
became ‘worthy’ concentration
to be marched West in a line
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the “Five Civilized Tribes” between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. Part of the Indian removal (this ethnic cleansing) was gradual, occurring over a period of nearly two decades – as members of the so-called “Five Civilized Tribes”—the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves)—were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to areas to the west of the Mississippi River that had been designated Indian Territory.
The forced relocations were carried out by government authorities after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia, in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.
The relocated peoples suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation whilst en route to their newly designated Indian reserve. Thousands died from disease before reaching their destinations or shortly after.
According to Native American activist Suzan Shown Harjo of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the event constituted a genocide. (.. this descriptive account is referenced via Wikipedia)