By Helena Schulz
From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of lifestyles within the united states, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed the world over. during this pioneering research, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways that Palestinian identification has been shaped within the diaspora via consistent eager for a place of origin misplaced. In so doing, the writer advances the talk at the courting among diaspora and the construction of nationwide id in addition to on nationalist politics tied to a selected territory. however the Palestinian Diaspora additionally sheds mild at the chances unfolded via a transnational lifestyles, the potential of new, much less territorialized identities, even in a diaspora as certain to the belief of an idealized fatherland because the Palestinian. contributors of the diaspora shape new lives in new settings and the belief of fatherland turns into one very important, yet no longer the one, resource of identification. finally although, Schulz argues, the powerful attachment to Palestine makes the diaspora an important in any understandings of ways to formulate a workable process for peace among Israelis and Palestinians.
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Home provides security, identity, a place where one is comfortable, needs no roles, where stability, warmth, comfort, relaxation and meaning prevail (cf. 24 ‘Home’ belongs to the taken-for-granted categories (Minh-ha 1994:14). Loss of home therefore has a traumatising potential. One way of dealing with the loss of a securing home is through exclusivism and/or through the creation of institutions that could serve the interests of a population without territory. In a globalised world, however, ‘home’ becomes ever more relative and to some extent stripped of its cosy associations.
People began to leave Jerusalem in early 1948 on a rather sporadic basis, and, as in other areas, flight was based on fear and occurred in relation to attacks of various sorts. Two military operations/events were determining factors in the fate of Palestinians in Jerusalem. One was the battle for Qastal, a village overlooking the Jerusalem-Jaffa highway. On the Palestinian side, al-Jihad al-Muqaddas led the irregular forces. The death of commander ’Abd al-Qadir al-Huseini on 8 April 1948 led to a demoralisation of the Palestinian forces.
So much so that they were not content to conquer Palestine, and expel the overwhelming majority of its inhabitants. In the 77% of the country they controlled on the morrow of the Naqba, they undertook to destroy the very signs of our roots in the land, and razed to the ground more than four hundred villages and towns. And we owe it to those who fell then, and later, and to those who mourn them and to all those whose individual lives were crushed in that tragedy— to all Palestinians—to remember those CATASTROPHE AND BEYOND 25 days, to understand their reality and their sense, and also to learn the harsh lessons of that dearly paid historical experience.
