Remembering Palestine before 1948

This essay offers insights and perspectives on studying and understanding the 1948 war, the first war between Israel and the Arabs, and specifically, the Palestinian defeat. The impact of this event, known to the Palestinians as the Nakba (catastrophe) continues to fuel much of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. While there is little disagreement between Arabs and Jews about the events and processes of the war, the question of the war's historical narratives and the relationship between them and historical truth is far more complex. Unfortunately, as one recent book on this subject demonstrates, many studies of the war often veer towards a more anti-Israeli polemic driven by identification with Palestinian suffering. This ultimately perverts history and the quest for highlighting the truth

Ancient history · Palestine · African history and culture analysis · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts