A PALESTINIAN man casts his eyes on the remains of a home destroyed overnight by Israeli soldiers in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday. He may as well be surveying the history of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba. The atrocities continue. As we head towards the anniversary of the Palestinian "catastrophe" on 15 May, we are reminded that the Nakba was not an isolated event, but a sweeping price paid by ordinary Palestinians for the establishment of the State of Israel. Al-Ahram Weekly marks this memorial moment with essays by Azmi Bishara, Mustafa Barghouti, Musa Al-Hindi, Asem Khalil and Abdel-Qader Yassin.