The Partition of Israel & Palestine

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  1. What Jews around the world call Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, is known by the Arab world by
    a very different name - Al Naqba, "The Catastrophe." Read the sources relating to a particularly bloody episode
    during the War for Independence in a town called Lydda. Source #1 is a summary of the specific accusation of
    the injustice allegedly perpetrated at Lydda. The next 2 sources each imply a different possible response to an
    accusation of injustice. Read: #1, 3, & 8: Claims of Injustice (resource).

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