A land without a people for a people without a land

Middle East Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 55-62

  Muir, Diana ^a  

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2. See for example, Hanan Ashrawi, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov. 6, 2003.
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62. McCrackan, The New Palestine, p. 250.
63. Khalidi, Palestinian Identity; p. 101.
64. Ibid.
65. Said, The Question of Palestine, p. 9.
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