Sixty Years of the Palestinian “Catastrophe”
As Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary, Palestinians continue to commemorate a very different history. Indeed, the intractability of the two sides’ ongoing conflict derives from nothing so much as their seemingly irreconcilable narratives of the creation of the State of Israel.
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As the state of Israel celebrates its 60th birthday, Palestinians remember the Nakbeh, or “catastrophe” – their story of dispossession, occupation, and statelessness. But, for both sides, as well as external powers, the events of 1948 and what has followed – the occupation since 1967 of the remaining lands of historic Palestine – represents a tragic failure.