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Portrait of a Palestinian State
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2018
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It is not historical fact, claims, and interpretations vying for credence against counterfact, claims, and interpretations that have determined the course of events in Palestine. Rather it is how Israelis and Palestinians over the years have come to perceive their reality and how each has built a whole body of active mythology to give outer shape to its maturing energies. Each of the two peoples is molded by its historical experiences it has first internalized and then projected in varieties of expression. The substance of what is right, who is right, becomes subordinated to, or is preceded by, the texture and contours of a person's sense of otherness, the force and quality of his sense of oppression.
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page 13 note • In 1967 the Palestinian population numbered around 2.4 million, of whom 57 per cent were refugees and 43 per cent nonrefugees. The latter category refers to Palestinians who on the eve of the 1948 war had lived and continued to live in the West Bank (20 per cent), Gaza (6 per cent), Israel (12 per cent), and other places (5 per cent). In 1967 the Palestinian population was dispersed in the following places: the East and the West Banks of the River Jordan (52 per cent), Gaza (17 per cent), Israel (12 per cent), Lebanon (7 per cent), Syria (6 per cent), and other places—Persian Gulf, North Africa, Canada, Australia, USA-(6 per cent). It should be noted that the destabilizing effects of Israeli occupation and the second refugee exodus of the June War of 1967 would render some of the above figures incorrect.
page 13 note • See “High Level Palestinian Manpower” by Nabeel Shaath, Journal of Palestine Studies (Winter, 1972). Also UNRWA Report, 1966-1967,