The New York Times · 23 April 1998

CP-1998-017

Living With the Palestinian ‘Catastrophe’

Israel at 50: Through Arab Eyes

Ethan Bronner

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Transcribed from the clipping

“For Arabs, the anniversary marks the Nakba, or catastrophe.”

Context added by this archive

The word Nakba in the New York Times in 1998, glossed for American readers as though it were new, on the fiftieth anniversary. The archive holds the catastrophe itself reported in 1948 under other words entirely.

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"Living With the Palestinian ‘Catastrophe’," The New York Times, 23 April 1998. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1998-017. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1998-017

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