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Ramadan Vol.1 Issue 62 December 2023 ELITE

Kareem Through this narrative Israel imposed its actual Nahsholim there. However, the truth is that Israeli

narrative of trying to always make peace with its soldiers invaded the village of Tantura on the 22nd
neighbors but at the same time it is always ready to of May 1948, they stripped women of their gold,
defend itself, as a proof, the Israeli army is called money, and anything valuable and were forcibly
the <Defense Army=, the <IDF=, the most noble expelled from the village but the men were forced to
army, from their perspective. gather at the shore to begin the execution, the
A manipulated story that shows Israel as the victims were placed individually in barrels, shot to
<underdog= which made it easy to sympathize with, death, and buried under the village in mass graves
because for many decades, Israel invested in which was proven by air-shot photographs of the
invading the western mind with this story in a way villages before and after the massacre, maps of the
that ensures the burial of the real story beneath. village, satellite images, testimonies from the
A vivid example of this story embodied in the Palestinians who survived the massacre, 3D
Tantura massacre. modeling of all changes occurred between these
Tantura, a small Palestinian fishing village, that pictures, to find out that the victims were buried in
witnessed one of the massacres in 1948 where mass graves located under the parking lot of
Palestinians were buried in mass graves. One of Nehsholim resort.
these graves lies beneath the parking lot of the
<Nahsholim resort= in Israel, until today.From the The form and construction of Tantura today serve
Israeli perspective, after the Nakba Tantura was a as a metaphor for the establishment of the Israeli
village that witnessed a <battle= in the state, representing a fragile surface of Western
<Independence War= between Israelis and Arabs. civilization that conceals a profound history of
The Israelis won, and the Arabs immigrated from evidence of past atrocities such as war crimes,
the village and went to a nearby village called Al- ethnic cleansing, genocide, and mass graves.
Faradis, then the settlers established Kibbutz

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