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Far from identifying with the Arab Spring, most Palestinians are grasping for ways to remain hopeful.

A Palestinian protester gestures at Israeli soldiers near the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 15, 2012, marking Nakba day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of Israel state in 1948.

Abbas Momani

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