From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Eman Elshaikh was published by Muftah on June 8, 2016.
Memory is a powerful thing, as is the absence of it. Recognizing this, Israel has manipulated the phenomenon of forgetting in many ways to try and rewrite its own bloody past and erase the history of the Palestinians. This has created a willful amnesia, in Israel, about the Nakba, or catastrophe, the systematic, violent expulsion and dispossession of native Palestinians by proto-Israeli Zionist forces. It has also facilitated the ongoing violence of the Israeli occupation, which Palestinians must deal with every day.
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