The Register-Guard · Eugene, Oregon · 4 December 1983
CP-1983-005
Education more than anything else distinguishes Palestinians
Transcribed from the clipping
“Education more than anything else distinguishes Palestinians. Already the best-educated Arabs before what they call ‘al nakba’ — the disaster — the Palestinians since 1948 have placed such priority on education that they now may have a higher percentage of their population in universities than Israel does.”
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The earliest use of the word in this archive. It arrives already quarantined: quotation marks, a translation, and "what they call."
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"Education more than anything else distinguishes Palestinians," The Register-Guard, 4 December 1983, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1983-005. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1983-005
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