The Nakba is the turning point in the modern history of Palestine - that year over 500 villages' and towns and a whole country and its people disapeared from international maps and dictionaries.

Truth-telling projects must be part of the solution in historic Palestine.

Today the Nakba continues through the 'politics of denial'. There are millions of Palestinian refugees around the world, all of whom are denied their internationally recognised 'right of return' to their homes and land.

The massacre of between eighty and one hundred villagers was carried out at the end of October 1948, not in the heat of the battle but after the Israeli army had clearly emerged victorious in the war.

But while the Holocaust is an event in the past, the Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank are continuing.