Al-Nakba and its many meanings in 1948 -- Completing the occupation of Galilee : Operation Hiram -- The Arab communists : between the Nakba and independence -- Forced migration continues after the cannons fall silent -- Stories about individuals and villages -- The struggle to remain : between politics and the judiciary -- The parliamentary elections and political behavior
Summary
Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-347) and index
