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Highlights from al-Majdal, BADIL’s quarterly magazine - Issue No. 22 (June 2004) "New initiatives for Palestinians in exile, Nakba commemoration 2004"

For Immediate Release

No. (E/29/04)

22 July 2004


 

The new issue of al-Majdal reports on an innovative Palestinian initiative to create civic structures for Palestinians in exile, the remembrance of the Nakba and attempts to hide and rename a continuing occupation of Palestinian land. 

 

Millions are left out of the negotiating process.  This study will build a data base on the size, location and structure of communities throughout the world and assess how these Palestinians can build structures for better communication with their political leadership and national representatives.

 

Al-Majdal also looks at Nakba through Palestinian eyes and the views of Israelis who see the need for recognition of the Nakba as a seminal event in the history of modern day Palestine.  It also looks at the events surrounding this year’s commemoration of the Nakba showing the renewed interest among Palestinians world wide in remembering this event.

 

Diana Buttu is the feature inteviewee in this issue.  Ms. Buttu, knowledgeable on the Palestinian negotiating stance and Palestinian issue in general, is a senior figure in the Palestinian Authority’s Negotions Support Unit.

 

Despite many efforts to cloak the occupation of the Palestinian territories in various guises, the occupation continues.  An article on the discontinuity of education under occupation and an editorial tracing some of the events and attempts to mask the occupation during the last 10 years through to so-called withdrawals and disengagements put the facts of the continuing occupation squarely on the table.

 

The issue also includes an update on Palestinian refugees in Iraq, outcome of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the separation wall, protection of Palestinians under the refugee and stateless conventions of 1951 and 1954 and needs for rebuilding Rafah.

 

Copies of Al-Majdal issue No. 22 will be mailed to subscribers shortly and a PDF version will be on: www.badil.org/Majdal/2004/almajdal22.pdf.  Annual subscriptions for four issues are available from [email protected] for $20.

 


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