As Israelis were evacuated from Jewish-only communities in the Galilee due to fires this month, Hatim Kanaaneh reflects, “Are you aware that within recent memory your own residential locales had Palestinian names and were inhabited by humans, some of whom with features not really different from your own and who were before their expulsion actually part of the best educated nation in the Middle East? They lived right where you live now but without all those fire-hazardous pines.”
It is impossible for an Israeli historian who doesn’t reject Zionism to understand Galilee resistance leader Tawfiq Zayyad, whose life shows, Mere Palestinian existence is undesirable in the eyes of the average Jewish Israeli, writes Hatim Kanaaneh.
An excerpt from Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh’s book “A Doctor in Galilee: The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel”
Marking Land Day in Arrabeh, which was at the heart of the uprising in 1976 that established the landmark memorial now observed throughout the Palestinian community the world over.