Palestine Arab Refugee Still Rejected

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Palestine Arab refugee cast miserably adrift by the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 finds himself 19 years later again a victim of conflict beyond understanding — still unwanted, a problem to all sides, a negative factor in the bargaining for peace. He and his family are among the world’s most pathetic people.

They and their kind were caught in the middle of the June 5-10 Middle East war, and many once more set out to transplant again the uprootings of a past generation. Some moved farther away from the lands that once were their homes.

They are the people who were forced out or abandoned their holdings in Palestine when Israeli arms carved this nation out of the traditional Holy Lands of Jew, Christian and Moslem in 1948. They settled in crowded camps in Arab lands around the Israeli perimeter — some within heartache sight of their old homes.

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Transcribed from a scan of the printed page. The date and the newspaper are both fixed from the page itself: the folio line across the top reads 'BRISTOL HERALD COURIER Thursday, August 31, 1967', read at twenty times page scale, and 31 August 1967 was a Thursday. The spelling matches the archive's existing 'Bristol Herald Courier' exactly. A page number sits at the far left of the same folio line but is too degraded on this scan to read with confidence, so the page field is left empty rather than guessed. The story is Associated Press copy, marked '(AP)' in the dateline rather than carrying a byline. The excerpt is the article's opening three paragraphs. Read from crops magnified to between fourteen and twenty times page scale.

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"Palestine Arab Refugee Still Rejected," Bristol Herald Courier, 31 August 1967. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-057. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-057