[news] Resisting the Nakba

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Joseph Massad - 16 May 2008

One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern history of Palestine and the Palestinians is the meaning of the **Nakba** (catastrophe). Is the Nakba to be seen as a discrete event that took place and ended in 1948, or is it something else?...What are the effects of making the Nakba a finite historical episode that one bemoans but must ultimately accept as a fact of history?...[T]he Nakba is none of these things, and the attempt to make this year the 60th anniversary of the Nakba's life and death is a grave error. The Nakba is...much older than 60 years and it is still with us, pulsating with life and coursing through history by piling up more calamities upon the Palestinian people.  


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