The Logic of No Reasoning

From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Suhad Bishara was published by The Nakba Files on May 16, 2016.

 

The story of the Nakba often focuses, rightly so, on the 750,000 Palestinian refugees who were exiled, as well as the destruction of their villages and loss of their lands. The Israeli legal system has played a pivotal role in this process, especially through the 1950 Absentees’ Property Law, which declared Palestinians outside areas of state control to be ‘absentees’ and expropriated their land. Less well-known is how the state of Israel confiscated the land of even those Palestinians who never left.

 

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