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The Sun InterviewBy Judith HertogTo RemainRaja Shehadeh on Living through Destruction in Palestine
I have been thinking that people all over the world these days are feeling a sense of despair because, like me, they are seeing the destruction of the world as they knew it. But it has occurred to me that the real destruction of my world happened in 1948, when the Palestinians lost Palestine.
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