Beruflich Dokumente
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A Story to Build a
Nation
An Analysis of Archaeology and
Nationalistic Tendencies in Israel
Meagan Roche
The fight for land, the fight for claim, the fight for identity, they all
dominate the conversation of rightfulness. The question for whose story is
true in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not one thats simply answered in an
argument polarized between Zionist Jews and Palestinian Arabs, and
legitimacy is not easily granted.
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