(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - On Sunday, June 5 - as on May 15 - Palestinians will seek to commemorate the Naksa ("setback" in Arabic), which like the Nakba is the Palestinian lamentation of Israelis' stubborn refusal to be wiped out by the combined armies of the Arab nations - this time in the 1967 Six-Day War. The Naksa, like the Nakba, has become the rallying cry on Facebook as well as in the Arab media for overcoming the "Zionist entity" by flooding Israel's borders with thousands of Palestinian "refugees." Few if any of these people can reasonably be defined as refugees since they have never set foot in Israel, let alone been expelled. They are, instead, the descendants of the several hundreds of thousands who left Israel after Palestinians failed to snuff out the Jewish state at birth and who paid the price of their leadership's disastrous mistakes and foolish intransigence. Israel might now again be forced to confront these "refugees" on its borders clamoring to "return" to their homes. It is essential that Israel prevent its borders from being breached by crowds intent on advancing a political agenda that calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.
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