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"Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they themselves have fabricated." Thus remarked the old Arab headmaster to young Saeed on his return to Haifa in the summer of 1948 in Emile Habiby's tragicomic novelThe Secret Life of Saʿid, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist. The headmaster spoke about the Israelis more in sorrow than in anger: "It is true they did demolish those villages … and did evict their inhabitants. But, my son, they are far more merciful than the conquerors our forefathers had years before".

An der Gründung und Auflösung des All-Palestine Government (September bis Dezember 1948, Sitz in Gaza) wird gezeigt, daß die Palästinapolitik der arabischen Länder und ihrer Organisationen (Arabische Liga, Arab Higher Committee) der Austragung innerarabischer Rivalitäten zu Lasten palästinensischer Interessen diente. (DÜI-Hns)