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While Arabs call the day "the catastrophe," many Israelis aren't in the mood to celebrate. A look back on six decades of dreams and nightmares.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qantara.de/image.php?url=/uploads/468/3171/source_481edc8a57279_Israel_Flagge.jpg" href="http://www.qantara.de/image.php?url=/uploads/468/3171/source_481edc8a57279_Israel_Flagge.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qantara.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/image.php?url=/uploads/468/3171/source_481edc8a57279_Israel_Flagge.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.qantara.de/img/5C762BD8-0A53-45A3-B0BA-D7F36926E224" alt="Klicken Sie auf das Bild, um dieses Fenster zu schließen!" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-970/i.html" href="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-970/i.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qantara.de</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-970/i.html"><DIV>On May 14, 1948, the leaders of Palestine's Jewish population, the Yishuv, gathered in Tel Aviv's museum to realize the dream that had begun taking shape over decades of growing Jewish immigration: to establish the Jewish state propagated by the father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl. </DIV><BR /><DIV>The opportunity had finally arrived. 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