The War of 1948 Quotes

“During the years of military government, Israeli Arabs manifested adherence to their Arab national identity parallel to preserving their local and traditional attachments, and were bound to strike a fine balance between their Israeli citizenship and Arab political and cultural identity. They developed a particular perspective by which they “simultaneously treated the state as present and absent in their lives while emphasizing the traumas they had to endure in the aftermath of the war, and the steadfastness they had to employ in order to sustain their dignity and survive.”
― Avraham Sela, The War of 1948: Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives