Truth-telling projects must be part of the solution in historic Palestine.

The Nakba is the turning point in the modern history of Palestine - that year over 500 villages' and towns and a whole country and its people disapeared from international maps and dictionaries.

But while the Holocaust is an event in the past, the Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank are continuing.

The massacre of between eighty and one hundred villagers was carried out at the end of October 1948, not in the heat of the battle but after the Israeli army had clearly emerged victorious in the war.

In 1948 'Ayn Zaytun was an entirely Muslim farming community of 1,000 inhabitants, cultivating olives, grain and fruit, especially grapes; the name is Arabic for 'Spring of Olives'.