The New York Times · 26 December 1993

CP-1993-036

Palestinians Must Now Master The Art of Forgetting

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“A different cartography, however, occurred somewhere else, within the hearts and minds of those Palestinians who live in the diaspora and the refugee camps, most of whom did not even have a chance to watch the televised images.”

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Illustrated with a hand holding a house key wrapped in barbed wire. The key is the object refugees carry; the headline tells them to master the art of forgetting it. Hold the picture and the headline in view at once and the page argues with itself.

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"Palestinians Must Now Master The Art of Forgetting," The New York Times, 26 December 1993. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1993-036. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1993-036

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