Dr. James J. Zogby is the author of Arab Voices (2010) and the founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.
Land has always been central to the Palestinian national identity. I learned this lesson in 1971 when I spent time in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan collecting people’s stories of the Nakbah. Their memories of the homes and lands they left behind, their deep longing to return, and their determination to keep alive their village culture was deeply moving.
They had emerged from the 1948 War shell-shocked from the horrors of the Nakbah during which so many members of their families were forced to flee, so many others died, and much of their land, homes, and businesses had been seized. Following the war, these Palestinians were subjected to restrictive Emergency Defense Laws under which the Israeli government imposed curfews, collective punishment, detention without charge, and expulsion.
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