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Liberal myths confronted in Palestine
— Naji al-Ali by Shovon Das THE history of modern Palestine cannot be understood without beginning with the Nakba — the violence of 1948 that led to the mass displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel. Entire villages were massacred, families scattered across borders, and a people transformed into one of the world’s longest-standing refugee populations. Yet the Nakba was never simply a historical event confined to the past. For Palestinians
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