Palestinians. To the injury of losing their homeland, and with it the prospect

of an independent national existence, was added the insult of decades of

non-recognition of the hurt that had been done to them.

Clearly, 1948 marks a collective trauma in the national history of the

Palestinians. To the injury of losing their homeland, an

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