The people of Palestine
have experienced numerous dislocations, pressures, and assaults over recent
generations which have destroyed and dispersed thousands of families and entire
cities.
For a population which had lived in a comparatively static
and traditional culture for centuries, these shocks have not been easy to adapt
to. One small ongoing strategy of national recovery is to remind
themselves of the lives of preceding Palestinians in the region – in the form
of mini-biographies of those for whom the local streets in Ramallah have been
named.
These histories serve to remind pedestrians of the
achievements of Palestinian and Arab era in this region . . .
. . . . . and also as
a reminder of the price in human lives which the conflict continues to impose.
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