As psychoanalysis proves the importance for individuals to establish links with the personal past, Palestinians find themselves required not only to ‘assert the relevance of the past’ but also ‘to ensure that its tangible relics survive…as guarantors of historical identity for [their] descendants’. Like any threatened indigenous people, who find themselves in a continuous identity struggle with stronger groups or states, Palestinians require in their dramatically changing landscape different kinds of reminders to fill in their ‘imagination’ with memories of the past.
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