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The Nakba Obsession

City Journal, by Sol Stern Posted By: Judy W.- Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:16:39 GMT A specter is haunting the prospective Israeli'Palestinian peace negotiations—the specter of the Nakba. The literal meaning of the Arabic word is “disaster”; but in its current, expansive usage, it connotes a historical catastrophe inflicted on an innocent and blameless people (in this case, the Palestinians) by an overpowering outside force (international Zionism). The Nakba is the heart of the Palestinians’ backward'looking national narrative, which depicts the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 as the original sin that dispossessed the land’s native people.

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