Sam Bahour e-mailed the following to his ePalestine listserv:
Dear friends,
I pass this very important article on the 60 year remembrance of the al-Nakba. This article is one of a set of articles published in the May issue of This Week in Palestine which is dedicated to the al-Nakba and is published in black & white to make the case of how we Palestinians view this month.
I urge all to visit the site and read (or download the whole issue in PDF format) the other articles and accounts of this important month where a colossal historical injustice was created and its wounds hemorrhage until today.
To all those still in refugee camps, less than one hour from their homes,
Sam
This Week in Palestine
Issue No. 121
May 2008
Al-Nakba of 1948: Older than sixty, for sure; but how long will it persist?
The need to re-focus our understanding of al-Nakba
I am not really certain when we started to label what happened to our people and our country, following the establishment of the state of Israel, as al-Nakba. But this is not really the important point. What is important, from my perspective as a Palestinian, is that there is a need to understand what happened to us in the late 1940s, why it happened the way it did, and what we should do to circumvent al-Nakba from persisting into our future.