Dept. of History
Lydda, 1948
By October 14, 2013
Shavit, Ari (21 October 2013). "Lydda, 1948 : a city, a massacre, and the Middle East today".
Dept. of History. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. pp. 40–46.
In Israel’s first months, largely Arab cities emptied as inhabitants were forced to flee.Photograph by David S. Boyer / Corbis
The Middle East is imploding, the Arab Spring is a memory, Syria is a surreal nightmare, yet a new attempt, brokered by the Obama Administration, is under way to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Can this new drive succeed where previous attempts have failed? It’s possible that the answer can be found in the history of Lydda, a small Palestinian city, now known as Lod, which lies east of Tel Aviv and west of Ramallah and Jerusalem––the very epicenter of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Anyone striving for Middle East peace must acknowledge the tragedy of Lydda and comprehend its implications.
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Published in the print edition of the October 21, 2013, issue.
In Israel’s first months, largely Arab cities emptied as inhabitants were forced to flee.Photograph by David S. Boyer / Corbis
The Middle East is imploding, the Arab Spring is a memory, Syria is a surreal nightmare, yet a new attempt, brokered by the Obama Administration, is under way to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Can this new drive succeed where previous attempts have failed? It’s possible that the answer can be found in the history of Lydda, a small Palestinian city, now known as Lod, which lies east of Tel Aviv and west of Ramallah and Jerusalem––the very epicenter of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Anyone striving for Middle East peace must acknowledge the tragedy of Lydda and comprehend its implications.
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Published in the print edition of the October 21, 2013, issue.
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