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How Gaza Became Hell on Earth

HISTORY REPEATING

This week marked the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence and the Palestinians’ ‘Nakba,’ or catastrophe. But Monday’s bloodshed in Gaza sprang from more recent disasters.

Neri Zilber
Neri Zilber
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Neri Zilber

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