Written in Hebrew with an Arabic translation alongside it, the guidebook, according to its editors, is an acknowledgment of the Nakba (catastrophe) that befell Palestinians after 1948 when they were driven out of, or fled from, their homes.
Many here are referring to the on-again-off-again battles as a new "Nakba", one that has coincided with the day Palestinians mark as their original "catastrophe -when the state of Israel was decatastrophe -whenhistheic Palestate.
The tools speak of a previous era and of one moment in particular: the day in 1948 when Hinn's father, a barber, fled the coastal city of Jaffa with the tools of his trade in the midst of the event Palestinians mark as the Nakba – "catastrophe" – that accompanied the creation of the state of Israel.
In May last year, a law was passed – widely termed the "Nakba Law" – that withdraws government funding from any group judged to be "acting against the principles of the country", which includes the commemoration of the nakba.
During a panel discussion I participated in last month in London, the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, the author of one of the most comprehensive and widely read books on the Nakba, said that many more Israeli veterans are now willing to speak about it.
It's sweet only because it meant surviving the Nakba, even if that meant staying in a devastated place.
When my friend Abdel Mohsin Al-Qattan was 19 years old, his family lost their home in Jaffa during the Palestinian Nakba – the exodus that followed war in 1948.
The demonstrations marked the anniversary of what the Palestinians term the "nakba," or "catastrophe," that accompanied the birth of Israel, and they were also called to demand the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Hostility to Israel has been a defining feature of the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East since Israel's creation in 1948 and the expulsion or flight of more than 700,000 Palestinians – which Arabs call the Nakba, or catastrophe – that accompanied it.
The violence grew out of street protests on behalf of the 1,650 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, coupled with demonstrations marking the anniversary of what Palestinians call the "nakba," the "catastrophe" that coupled the destruction of Palestine with the birth of Israel.
