The New York Times · 19 February 1980

CP-1980-017

Palestinians in Gaza: Hostages to a Dream

David K. Shipler

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Transcribed from the clipping

“My father, who lived there more than 50 years, can’t even find the place of our home. You can’t see anything but trees.”

Context added by this archive

Feres Abu Shawish teaches English in Nuseirat camp and describes his father looking for a house and finding a forest. Shipler opens on a barefoot twelve-year-old in Jabaliya. The dream in the headline belongs to the Palestinians; the word hostages does the rest of the work.

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"Palestinians in Gaza: Hostages to a Dream," The New York Times, 19 February 1980. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1980-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1980-017

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