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Two villages, 1948

Nabil Adwan born in Azariya, but still feels like an outsider among fellow Palestinians.

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Nabil Adwan is a high school principal in the West Bank town of Azariya, just east of Jerusalem. He wasn’t yet born when his family fled Qastal, their native village, during the fierce battles for control of the western approaches to Jerusalem in Israel’s War of Independence in 1948 – 64 years ago this month.

Adwan, 50, is bitter when he compares the plight of the Qastal villagers to the experience of the residents of neighboring Abu Gosh. “Our only crime was that our village was situated at the top of the mountain and it was a strategic military spot. If it weren’t so, I would be able to live comfortably today in a big house, like they live in Abu Gosh,” he tells The Jerusalem Report.

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