"When I grew up, there was Hebrew literature on the curriculum, and only a bit of Arabic-but certainly no Palestinian literature. They didn't speak about the Israeli Palestinians as Palestinians at all, but rather as Arabs. They thought that if I was a Palestinian, then I was Arafat. So it immediately became a political issue. The Jewish identity is very, very confused. The Palestinians don't have that problem."
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Salman Natour
1949 – 2016
Salman Natour (Arabic: سلمان ناطور; 1949-2016) was a Druze Israeli writer and novelist
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