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Article: In a dark time, Roethke said, the eye begins to see - Last month, after I described my understanding of the events that led to the war that started on October 7th in 'Mapping Conflict,' I saw several films about Palestine in 1920 and 1948. I began to learn history that I had no idea I did not know.

Article: In a dark time, Roethke said, the eye begins to see - Last month, after I described my understanding of the events that led to the war that started on October 7th in 'Mapping Conflict,' I saw several films about Palestine in 1920 and 1948. I began to learn history that I had no idea I did not know.

May 15th marks 75 years since the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when roughly 750,000 Palestinians—some two-thirds of Palestine’s Arab population—were forced to flee their homes over the course of Israel’s creation in 1948. Three-quarters of a century later, the number of Palestinian refugees now stands at over 8 million, including those displaced in 1948 and 1967, making them the largest and oldest unsettled refugee population in the world.

It will air at 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 4 and 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1.