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Major Events And The Collective Memory Of Conflicts, Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Rafi Nets-Zehngut

Purpose – Collective memory of conflicts is assembled around major events, such as, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 1948 Palestinian exodus from the central cities of Lydda and Ramla. To date, however, various theoretical aspects of major events of conflicts have not been considered in the literature. This article aims to address this lack by exploring for the first time the way in which the causes for that exodus were presented in Israel from 1949 to 2005. Design/methodology/approach – Methodologically, this is based on studies that have analyzed separately the publications by various Israeli state establishments (e.g. …