{"id":3130,"date":"2008-05-05T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2008-05-05T10:29:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T15:29:38","slug":"dr-khalil-nakhleh-al-nakba-of-1948-older-than-sixty-for-sure-but-how-long-will-it-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Khalil Nakhleh: Al-Nakba of 1948: Older than sixty, for sure; but how long will it persist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Bahour e-mailed the following to his <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine \">ePalestine listserv<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; white to make the case of how we Palestinians view this month.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com\/index.php\">urge all to visit the site<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>To all those still in refugee camps, less than one hour from their homes,<\/p>\n<p>Sam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This Week in Palestine<\/p>\n<p>Issue No. 121<br \/>\nMay 2008<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><strong>Al-Nakba of 1948: Older than sixty, for sure; but how long will it persist?<\/strong><\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com\/details.php?id=2456&#038;ed=153&#038;edid=153\">By Dr. Khalil Nakhleh<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong>The need to re-focus our understanding of <em>al-Nakba<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>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 <em>al-Nakba<\/em>. 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 <em>al-Nakba<\/em> from persisting into our future. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisweekinpalestine.com\/details.php?id=2456&#038;ed=153&#038;edid=153\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}