they generally did little more than project the imagined past into the future. Some of them talked unreflectively of "liberating" Palestine. This meant restoring an Arab Palestine that had never been a sovereign state, and whose social basis was irrevocably gone with the flight of over half the Palestinian people and the expropriation of most of their land.

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royaldirtman

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“they generally did little more than project the imagined past into the future. Some of them talked unreflectively of "liberating" Palestine. This meant restoring an Arab Palestine that had never been a sovereign state, and whose social basis was irrevocably gone with the flight of over half the Palestinian people and the expropriation of most of their land.”- Rashid Khalidi