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We've referred to the dispossession of half the Syrian population (around 12 million people) as a gigantic Nakbah for years, but many probably viewed it as rhetorical flourish. "Naturally people flee during war but they'll return later" etc. But we understood that the very systematic way in which the regime destroyed entire cities and entire parts of the country, the clear focus on murdering as many civilians as possible over actually fighting rebels as such, as evidence that counterrevolution, while the main aim of the regime's war, was not the only aim, and our use of the term 'Nakbah' was quite deliberate and carefully chosen. This has been clarified in actual legislation by the Assad regime. "It has drawn parallels with laws enacted in Lebanon after the civil war to seize land in central Beirut, and the absentee property law in Israel in 1950 that legalised seizures from Palestinians driven from their lands." 10m Syrians at risk of forfeiting homes under new property law https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/10m-syrians-at-risk-of-forfeiting-homes-under-new-property-law Assad confiscates homes of millions who fled war in Syria Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent | Hannah Lucinda Smith, Istanbul https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/assad-confiscates-homes-of-millions-who-fled-war-qm5qnz6rw _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
