What characterizes the Palestinian and Arab reaction to the 1967 War can be described as an almost panic or fear of complete epistemic erasure. The War made it clear to Palestinians that Israel is capable of physically erasing Palestine, as well as (if not more importantly) its history. In order to assess the impact of the war on the Palestinian literary and academic production, this paper will address the works of Palestinians from three geographical and political contexts (the West, Israel, and the Middle East), who published before and after the 1967 War. The rationale behind this comparison is simple: to check whether there were any transformations in their writings, to characterize the changes, and to identify patterns if there are any. The paper will focus on the works of Edward Said, Emile Habiby and Ghassan Kanafani. It will explore how did Palestinian intellectuals deal with the fear of oblivion in different geographical, political and ideological contexts in which they lived? How did it propel and shape their writing? What are the underlying themes, issues, and parameters that they utilized to address this fear? For example, what propelled Ghassan Kanafani and Edward Said to investigate the depiction of the Palestinian/Arab in Jewish and Western literature and consciousness immediately after the war? The paper will show that all three authors agree on the need to maintain and preserve ‘Palestinian presence’, through ‘fighting falsifications and distortions’, as well as through providing ‘corrective knowledge’. Nevertheless, the question is: whose ‘corrective knowledge’ should Palestinians adopt? The question of context is crucial. My contention is that the outcomes of Palestinian fear of oblivion exceed the boundaries of Palestinian literature and discourse. For example, Said admits, in his 2001 eulogy of Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, that this article was the basis of his research that led to Orientalism. In other words, given that Said’s Orientalism was credited of the creation of Postcolonial Studies as an academic field, and the use of Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘resistance literature’ in research on other ‘post-colonial’ literatures, would it be possible to say that the 1967 War have propelled and shaped one of the biggest academic developments in the humanities in the 20th century?