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<p style="font-size:10pt;">LONDON, (PIC)&#8211; The London based  Palestinian Return Centre is to hold on Friday a workshop during which  Professor Salman Abu Sitta will be launching &#8220;The Atlas of Palestine  1917-1966&#8221; in which he uses documents to &#8220;prove rights and to correct  wrongs.&#8221;</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Professor Abu Sitta will redraw the  contours of Israeli landscape by documenting the erasure of Palestinian  history and the ongoing Nakba.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He will map the history of Palestinian  Exile. The presentation will provide a historical and forensic analysis  of the mechanism of expulsion, which began in 1947 and continues even  today. It will also provide graphic illustrations of the policy of  expulsion which he has documented in his new atlas. The atlas contains  names and descriptions of Palestinian villages that have been destroyed.  It also provides names, description and location of Palestinian  villages which Israel does not recognize, some of which have recently  been under attack to force their residents to move elsewhere.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Many Thousands of Palestinians still carry  deeds to their lands and properties. The towns and villages from which  they were expelled have been erased from Israeli Maps. Israeli maps also  fail to document existing villages that have existed long before any  Israeli settlements. Unrecognised villages are denied any basic services  from the government.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Professor Abu Sitta is founder and  President of Palestine Land Society (London),  author of : &#8220;The Atlas of  Palestine 1948&#8221;, 2005, &#8220;The Return Journey&#8221;, 2007 and &#8220;From Refugees to  Citizens at Home&#8221;, 2001 and &#8220;The Atlas of Palestine 1917-1966&#8221;, 2010  and General Coordinator of the Right of Return Congress.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Chairman of PRC Majed al-Zeer stressed  that the launching of this Atlas is important in terms of time and place  as Britain bears special historical responsibility for creating the  Palestinian problem and the resulting suffering of the Palestinian  people during a period which is covered by this distinctive academic  work.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">As to the timing; al-Zeer said that this  work comes to reinforce the Palestinian inalienable rights at a time  when there are frantic attempts to liquidate the Palestinian issue  through an unjust &#8220;peace process&#8221;.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7%2b7bMBheb6Jyq7zOwZb%2fr85EIVy01CiZ9H0QC6RZxXK%2b098c1zovbYb2JzTMKmoqIoHbHL229Ry4j4ER65dMkLEXFZ2SDQtUsEG69k3i%2f%2blQ%3d">PRC holds a workshop titled &#8220;Mapping Palestine: for its survival or destruction</a>.</p>
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