More than anything else they exposed the deep gap existing between the enormous importance the Palestinian national movement and its historians attributed to the solution of the problem against the almost total negligence towards the question shown by the state of Israel and its historians. The contradicting historical versions revealed not only a disagreement on facts. Thus, historians on both sides were not only presenting documents and facts by were also adhering to their political positions on the subject. The debate, ever since it started in the 1960s, was in essence a confrontation between two narratives: the Palestinian and the Zionist ones. This article is concerned with contemporary implications generated by the historiographical debate on the Palestinian refugee problem.
2005 The History, Historiography and Relevance of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
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