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Henry Gurney was enough of a skeptic to remark, on the day he left Palestine, that “perhaps, at that short range, we missed the full point of what was happening…”459 Indeed, how could he or anyone else comprehend the full human and historical meaning of an event of which he himself was a part, and from zero distance?
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Golani, M. (2009). Epilogue. In: The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244733_4
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