PA Minister of Culture: Haifa is in "the '48 territories"
Headline: “Met with delegation of the Association of Interior writers (i.e., Israeli-Arab) – Minister of Culture calls to build bridges of attachment and cooperation with writers and intellectuals in the ’48 territories”(i.e., Israel)
“Minister of Culture Siham Al-Barghouti emphasized that it is important to build bridges of attachment and cooperation between the Ministry and the writers and intellectuals in the ’48 territories, since they are an inseparable part of the united Palestinian cultural process. During a meeting yesterday in the Ministry building in Ramallah with a delegation from the Palestinian Writers’ Union in Haifa, in the ’48 territories, Barghouti noted that maintaining cultural identity requires working with all parts of the homeland, and not submitting to the divisions enforced by the Israeli occupation through isolation of the Palestinians and erecting intellectual and ideological barriers between them.”
“Minister of Culture Siham Al-Barghouti emphasized that it is important to build bridges of attachment and cooperation between the Ministry and the writers and intellectuals in the ’48 territories, since they are an inseparable part of the united Palestinian cultural process. During a meeting yesterday in the Ministry building in Ramallah with a delegation from the Palestinian Writers’ Union in Haifa, in the ’48 territories, Barghouti noted that maintaining cultural identity requires working with all parts of the homeland, and not submitting to the divisions enforced by the Israeli occupation through isolation of the Palestinians and erecting intellectual and ideological barriers between them.”