ABSTRACT
One of the main characteristics of the Palestinians’ socializing dynamics is
their constant overtelling of history and politics. It could be framed as ironic,
for modern history and politics were never on the side of the Palestinians.
But it is not a sense of irony that brings the Palestinians to dig and rebuild
histories. It can be understood on at least two levels. First, the Palestinians
perceive themselves as the victims of history, and by retelling it they gain
agency to reshape their personal lives. Second, on the collective level they
construct an identity by restructuring the events that shaped their dislocation and dispossession. Inherent in the second level is the deep collective
sense that the injustice of events is continued in the historical representa-
tions of the same events. Hence, at least in the intersubjective domain, the
‘true story’ is told.
