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Saturday, November 18, 2023
Sunbird poem by Fady Joudah
The Western World will be putting up Nativity Scenes in their homes and churches which are about Middle Eastern people seeking refuge & look awful lot like those being bombed in Gaza
Olive wood carving from Bethlehem- Mary, baby Jesus, and Joseph |
The #Western #World
will be putting up Nativity Scenes in their homes and churches which
are about Middle Eastern people seeking refuge & look awful lot like
those being bombed in Gaza!
Water is life. The denial & destruction of it is genocide. .. Visualizing Palestine
The last Palestinians resisting in the olive groves: ‘The settlers are trying to take away the food we put on the table so they can then take our land’
West Bank farmers claim that they were already suffering attacks by settlers before October 7, but that now the Israeli army has also joined in the harassment
Friday, November 17, 2023
8-year-old Mohammed from Gaza sits on the rubble of his family's house
“I wish for a ceasefire.” |
UNICEF continues to call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, unrestricted humanitarian access and immediate and safe release of all abducted children.
Children in Gaza need lifesaving support
The escalation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip is having a catastrophic impact on children and families. Children are dying at an alarming rate – thousands have reportedly been killed and thousands more injured. An estimated 1.5 million people in the Gaza Strip have been displaced – more than half of them children. They’re running out of water, food, fuel and medicine. Their homes have been destroyed; their families torn apart.
“In all wars it is children who suffer first and suffer most.”
Even wars have rules. No child should be cut off from essential services, nor fall from the reach of humanitarian hands. No child should be held hostage or used by any means in armed conflict. Hospitals and schools must be protected from bombings, and they must not be used for military purposes, in accordance with international humanitarian law. No child should suffer the threat of bombs from their beds. The cost to children and their communities of this violence will be borne out for generations to come.
What is UNICEF calling for?
To respond to the situation for children in Israel and the State of Palestine, UNICEF is calling for:
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An immediate humanitarian ceasefire.
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The immediate, safe and unconditional release of all abducted children and the prevention and end to any grave violations against children, including killing and injuring.
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All access crossings into the Gaza Strip to be opened and safe movement for humanitarian workers and supplies across the Gaza Strip to ensure sustained and unimpeded access of humanitarian aid to affected populations wherever they are. This must include water, food, medical supplies, and fuel.
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Urgent medical cases in Gaza to be able to safely access critical health services or be allowed to leave, and for injured or sick children evacuated to be accompanied by family members.
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Respect and protection for civilian infrastructure such as shelters and schools, and health, electric, water and sanitation facilities, to prevent loss of civilian and children’s lives, outbreaks of diseases, and to provide care to the sick and wounded. All parties to the conflict must respect international humanitarian law.
UNICEF continues to press world leaders on every occasion for humanitarian access to the whole of Gaza.
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Dear America- STOP RACIST HATE
1948 Palestinian refugees refused their natural, logical, moral, ethical and legal right to return to original homes and lands. |
Dear America,
America was very racist before, during and after World
War II and the Nazi Holocaust. In some ways we are better now, but in other ways we are worse:
Funding Israel as Israel subsidizes religious zealots to harass Palestinians and usurp Palestinian land is wrong- and racist.
Arming Israel as it bombs refugee camps, hospitals, and bread bakeries in Gaza is wrong- and racist.
Ignoring Israel's blatant and long term violations of international
law [1948-2023] and the indigenous Palestinians' basic human rights is
wrong- and racist.
STOP RACIST HATE- start by ending America's misguided support for the
heavily armed and generously subsidized Jews-preferred Israel as Israel
aggressively destroys Arab Palestinian homes and lives everywhere and
in every way it can.
The more America supports Israel the more power and weaponry angry armed
extremists and their propagandists world wide gain, ensuring more terrorism and more enemies...
more injustice... more poverty... more suffering... more hypocrisy...
more lies... and more misinformation perpetuating more racist hate and evil in this world.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American Homemaker & Poet
NOTES
To quote a well known American hero... "Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation
to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our
nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of
brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's
children." I Have A Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963
Palestinians in the West Bank say Israeli settlers attack them, seize their land amid the war with Hamas CBS News with video
"The Ministry of Health in the West Bank says almost 200 Palestinians
have been killed in the territory since Oct. 7, and the United Nations
humanitarian relief agency OCHA says almost 1,150 people have been
displaced from their homes there due to settler violence and land access
restrictions." ... READ MORE & Watch the CBS News Video
Dear world, we see you By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH November 16, 2023
"Do mainstream news outlets like Fox, NBC, CBS etc even have a fact checking department anymore? ..." Susan Muaddi Darraj
A rare picture of the harvest season from the Bin Amer Meadow located between the Galilee region and the Nablus Mountains in the north circa 1930 PALESTINE
Wadadad Khoury Salah from the town of Jaffna Qadaa Ramallah now, and when she was young
Prayer Vigil November 20, 2023 6 p.m. Washington DC: CEASEFIRE NOW (stop the violence, stop the injustice, stop the racist hate, STOP ISRAEL'S WAR ON PALESTINE )
Stand for Humanity
For the Palestinian Christians in Gaza who are being ethnically cleansed along with their Muslim neighbors.
Statement on the Celebration of Advent and Christmas in the Midst of War Novemeber 10, 2023 The Patriachs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
"So yes I am a Palestinian refugee and I am from Yaffa. Deal with it." Ambassador Majed Bamya
Demonstrations
Pro Palestinians demonstrators chanted "Free Palestine"
... Pro Israeli demonstrators chanted "No Ceasefire"
If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust, or the civil rights movement- you're doing it right now
Zeina Azzam poem- Write My Name....
The Sorrowful Mother, from Coreggio, in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
A Palestine Madonna (photo of a Palestinian mother with her baby taken in the 1930s)
Palestine-- Palestinians with ladders at olive trees and people picking olives off the ground. circa 1880-1922 Library of Congress
Sliman Mansour: Painting Palestine’s Story
What should America believe in & what should America invest in?
There is nothing humanitarian about a pause in which your two options are to either leave your home forever or die ....
Oh hey, a friendly reminder that you can understand, acknowledge, and sympathize with very real generational Jewish trauma and still push for a free Palestine. - Susan Muaddi Darraj
Israel's War on Palestine did not begin on October 7th #1948-2023
Many Palestinian families still have the keys to the houses they left in 1948.
1948's Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world...
To quote a well known American hero...
Martin Luther King Jr statue in Washington Dc |
"Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
I Have A Dream speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/i-have-a-dream-speech#i-have-a-dream-speech-text
[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES or quotes IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]
Palestinians in the West Bank say Israeli settlers attack them, seize their land amid the war with Hamas CBS News with video
"The Ministry of Health in the West Bank says almost 200 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since Oct. 7, and the United Nations humanitarian relief agency OCHA says almost 1,150 people have been displaced from their homes there due to settler violence and land access restrictions." ... READ MORE & Watch the CBS News Video
By Debora Patta, Agnes Reau
/ CBS News with VIDEO
[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES or quotes IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]
Dear world, we see you By Joharah Baker for MIFTAH November 16, 2023
Gaza has cracked the world wide open. The masks have fallen from just about everyone and when all this is said and done, the Palestinians will take inventory on both friend and foe.
This horrendous assault on the Gaza Strip has laid bare some very uncomfortable truths. For one, the grossly unbalanced world order has not changed, even as the bombs fall mercilessly on Gaza. While our guts already knew this, it was still shocking to witness how the slaughter peeled back the layers of falsehoods, concealing the ugly truth. The world is still a binary equation of colonizer and colonized, oppressor and oppressed and white vs black and brown, and there is no question under which category the Palestinians fall.
The colonialist past is playing out in real time today in Gaza and we, as Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” so succinctly described, are “the brutes”. We are the indigenous brown people, the sub-humans who are inherently violent and who are responsible for our own deaths... READ MORE
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
"Do mainstream news outlets like Fox, NBC, CBS etc even have a fact checking department anymore? ..." Susan Muaddi Darraj
"Do mainstream news outlets like Fox, NBC, CBS etc even have a fact checking department anymore?
Susan Muaddi Darraj’s new novel, BEHIND YOU IS THE SEA, will be published in January 2024 by HarperVia. Her previous short story collection, A Curious Land: Stories from Home, was named the winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, judged by Jaime Manrique. The book was published in December 2015 by the University of Massachusetts Press. It also won the 2016 Arab American Book Award, a 2016 American Book Award, and was shortlisted for a Palestine Book Award. Her previous short story collection, The Inheritance of Exile, was published in 2007 by University of Notre Dame Press.
In 2019, she launched the viral #TweetYourThobe social media campaign to promote Palestinian culture. Later that year, she was named winner of the Rose Nader Award, by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), an award given by the Nader family to a person who “demonstrates an unwavering dedication and commitment to values of equality and justice.”
[AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO READ GOOD ARTICLES or quotes IN FULL: HELP SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and conversations) THAT EMPOWER DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE & PEACE... and hopefully Palestine]
A rare picture of the harvest season from the Bin Amer Meadow located between the Galilee region and the Nablus Mountains in the north circa 1930 PALESTINE
Wadadad Khoury Salah from the town of Jaffna Qadaa Ramallah now, and when she was young
Wadadad Khoury Salah from the town of Jaffna Qadaa Ramallah now, and when she was young |
Prayer Vigil November 20, 2023 6 p.m. Washington DC: CEASEFIRE NOW (stop the violence, stop the injustice, stop the racist hate, STOP ISRAEL'S WAR ON PALESTINE )
Stand for Humanity
For the Palestinian Christians in Gaza who are being ethnically cleansed along with their Muslim neighbors.
For the Palestinian Christians in Gaza who are being ethnically cleansed along with their Muslim neighbors. |
Statement on the Celebration of Advent and Christmas in the Midst of War November 10, 2023 The Patriachs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem
[AS
ALWAYS PLEASE GO TO THE LINK TO
READ GOOD ARTICLES IN FULL: HELP
SHAPE ALGORITHMS (and
conversations) THAT EMPOWER
DECENCY, DIGNITY, JUSTICE &
PEACE... and hopefully
Palestine]
"So yes I am a Palestinian refugee and I am from Yaffa. Deal with it." Ambassador Majed Bamya
Ambassador Majed Bamya |
Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, New York. Palestinian from Yaffa. Refugee. The time for freedom is always right now!
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Demonstrations
Pro Palestinians demonstrators chanted "Free Palestine"
... Pro Israeli demonstrators chanted "No Ceasefire"
If you've ever wondered what you'd do during slavery, the holocaust, or the civil rights movement- you're doing it right now
Zeina Azzam poem- Write My Name....
The Sorrowful Mother, from Coreggio, in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Famous religious paintings. The Sorrowful Mother, from Coreggio, in Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem |
A Palestine Madonna (photo of a Palestinian mother with her baby taken in the 1930s)
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About this Collection
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the collection consists of over 22,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. Over 1,000 photographic prints and eleven albums are also part of this collection.
Digital images for the negatives and transparencies and a
sample of the photographs are available online. https://loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Palestine-- Palestinians with ladders at olive trees and people picking olives off the ground. circa 1880-1922 Library of Congress
Summary
Remember Palestine |
Sliman Mansour: Painting Palestine’s Story
Sliman Mansour: Painting Palestine’s Story |