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The Palm Beach Post · West Palm Beach, Florida · 8 December 1986

CP-1986-001

Denied an identity, Gazans losing hope in land of despair

Denied an identity, Gazans losing hope in land of despair — The Palm Beach Post, 8 December 1986
The Palm Beach Post · West Palm Beach, Florida · 8 December 1986

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A year before the intifada, a Florida paper putting the thing itself in the first two words: denied an identity. The sentence has no one denying it, and the last four words turn the place into a mood. But the claim in the opening is the one this whole archive is about, and it was printable in Palm Beach in December 1986.

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"Denied an identity, Gazans losing hope in land of despair," The Palm Beach Post, 8 December 1986. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1986-001. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1986-001

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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.

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