The Palestine Entries: Photos of Gaza’s Beachfront, Part 2

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion took exactly sixteen minutes to read the scroll of the Establishment of the State to a crowd of 250 people in what was then the Tel Aviv Museum. In such a short matter of time, Palestinian sovereignty was stripped away and the forthcoming establishments paved the way for decades of humanitarian injustices institutionalized by prejudiced policies and settler-colonialist conquest.

This blog identifies those sixteen minutes as a major historical turning point and pays tribute to those affected by it. Preservation of the Palestinian identity, especially in the face of those who wish to erase it, is the ultimate purpose of this blog. Sixteen Minutes to Palestine presents the facts, the logic, and narratives about a people standing tall in the face of Israel's oppression.

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