One Year – The New Inquiry

That day, a prison break. Displaced from their towns and villages all across Palestine during the nakba of 1947–1949, the people of the land held on to the promise of return, the commitment that has animated each new generation penned in by the forces of Zionism, Western imperialism, and Arab reaction. Over seven decades, they had been ethnically cleansed from their homes, pushed into a small strip of land that built upwards, forced to endure the tampering and testing. Outside their walls, apartheid highways ferried the machines for future construction and their new residents—the vengeful, the distracted—now made to taste fear anew.
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