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“The landscape of al-Kabri has been completely transformed to tell a story of its past, and to tell that story as if it were the only one to tell. This process is an inherent part of a nation's self-construction. The physical landscape, although it seems to be natural, neutral, and permanent, is not. Its soil, trees, and stones are malleable, open to playing a role in the re-creation of a collective memory”
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
“Perhaps the strongest reason for the razing of the villages was the desire to purge their ghosts. The presence of the exiles still lingered in the architecture and the carefully tended olive groves and the pots and pans hastily buried in the yard. It was easier simply to bulldoze the villages and start afresh.”
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
“Memory holds us fast in what we are unable to forget- acts of violence or disaster, personal and communal. The shared memory of violence, or collective trauma, is a particularly strong adhesive in the construction of a national identity.”
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
― Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
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