Icon art by Kelly Latimore: "Christ in the Rubble," illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."

  Icon art by Kelly Latimore: "Christ in the Rubble," illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."   https://kellylatimoreicons.com/products/christ-in-the-rubble

A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall) ... Christians of Palestine

A young girl of Bethlehem in traditional Thob and Shatweh (Per Reem Ackall)

 https://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Bethlehem_8155/Picture_80284.html

Folklore, Dresses, & Debka

 

Palestine Remembered - Palestinian folklore, culture, dresses (thobs), debka (Samir)..etc including family portraits; especially during the pre-Nakba period. 

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To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live... Ms. Rachel

Fan Ms Rachel At Songs

@msrachelforlitt

Fan account

 

To see humanity in everyone and want everyone to thrive is a beautiful way to live.    https://x.com/msrachelforlitt/status/2000641931504754821/photo/1

#LetAidIntoGaza

https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search?q=Ms+Rachel

“I never thought I’d go on TV and beg for children not to be intentionally starved and that would be controversial.” Ms Rachel 

GLAMOUR: Ms. Rachel’s Dress at the Glamour Women of the Year 2025 Awards Has a Special Meaning

"I want my taxes to help children, not kill them. I want my taxes to feed children, not starve them. I want to build a better world, not bomb it." Ms Rachel 

"Admirers from UNICEF leaders to Hollywood actors have praised her for saying what many politicians won’t. Critics, meanwhile, accuse her of politicizing childhood. She doesn’t flinch. “I have to just remind myself that kids’ lives are more important than my reputation,”" Ms Rachel, Glamour magazine's Women of the Year

"Imagine slashing SNAP, the program that helps children in the U.S. not go hungry- while sending billions in weapons to another country to kill other children" Ms Rachel for Littles

YouTube Star Ms Rachel Sings with 3 Year Old Double Amputee From Gaza

“What does it say about these times that the world trusts Ms. Rachel more than the New York Times?” Mo Amer in The New Yorker

Dear America- "ISRAEL SAYS" is not God talking.

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Israel's AI powered ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians being fueled & empowered by American technology : Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon. December 18th 2025 ....

Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon.  December 18th 2025 https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-Jensen-Huang-Israel-has-become-Nvidias-second-home-1001529537

Historic Palestine map prepared by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta 2022 https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases/maps/palestine

REPORTS

Dividing War Spoils

Israel's Seizure, Confiscation & Sale of Palestinian Property

Financing Racism and Apartheid

Jewish National Fund’s Violation of International and Domestic Law

https://www.plands.org/en/maps-atlases

 

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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict For Beginners

https://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story725.html 

Refugees 101, The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugees problem.

Ethnic Cleansing 101, how Palestinians became refugees.

Famous Zionist Quotes, here we introduce you to the foremost Zionist leaders BASED on what they said and wrote.

 

Mission Statement 

To provide a comprehensive source of information about the villages and cities that were ethnically cleansed, looted, and destroyed by the Israeli army. At each town's homepage, you will find pictures (both before and after Nakba of 1948), the current status of the town, the Israeli colonies that occupy the town's lands, a brief history of the town before and after Nakba, detailed accounts of atrocities and any acts of terror, personal accounts from the refugees themselves, and above all live interviews from refugees reciting their experiences before, during and after Nakba.  

https://www.palestineremembered.com/MissionStatement.htm

Qisarya - قيسارية, Haifa: فتاتان قرب بئر الماء في قيسارية قضاء حيفا 1943..

All Towns Lisiting: Cities & villages in the district of Haifa

• District Pictures
• Town Lands' Demarcation Maps
• Satellite 

 

District's population distribution

Year Total Muslim Arabs Christian Arabs Jews 1911 23,440 19,244 3,282 914 1916 30,737 23,823 3,691 1,117 1922 42,839 23,305* 11,032 6,425 1931 95,472** 52,830 16,492 23,367 1945 224,630 85,590 30,200 104,510 * In the Ottoman's period, Haifa district was made off 62 villages and that may have accounted for the population drop down in 1922. ** The number of houses in the municipality in 1931 was 21,335.

Ethnic cleansing

Based on declassified Israeli documents, the Israeli historian Benny Morris concluded that the Jewish civilian population (especially Haifa's Jewish mayor Shabtai Levy) was at peace with their Palestinian neighbors, but the Haganah and the IZL leadership had a different agenda to ethnically cleanse the city from its Palestinian Arab population. Benny Morris wrote: "In Haifa, the civilian authorities were saying one thing and the Haganah was doing something else altogether. Moreover, Haganah units in the field acted inconsistently and in a manner often unintelligible to the Arab population" (Benny Morris, p. 90). To expedite the ethnic cleansing process, the Haganah broadcasted terror messages, via loudspeakers, to psychologically terrorize the Arab inhabitants into fleeing. (Benny Morris, p. 76)

Refugees' migration route

The mass majority of Haifa's Palestinian population, numbering at least 35,000, were pushed into the sea. Similarly, Jaffa's population, numbering at least 50,000, suffered the same fate on May 13th,1948. Click here to view a map that illustrates refugees' migration routes. Via boats, many Palestinian refugees landed in Sour (Tyre), Sayda, and Beirut Lebanon, and some boats managed to land in Acre City. It's very sad that some of the people who landed in Acre were ethnically cleansed again few weeks later. Ironically, often Zionists accuse the Arabs of plotting to push the Jews into the sea!

City name through history

The city's name is derived from the Canaanite Arabic word al-Hayfah meaning nearby, and during the Roman period it was known by Efa. The Crusades called Haifa by Cayphas and sometime they referred to it also by Sycaminon (meaning Wild Strawberry which is abandoned in the area). During the Islamic period, Acre dominated the coastal area, and Haifa was just a small town. It is worth pointing out that Haifa is a modern and new city, which was initially developed by the Ottomans, and later on by the British Mandate and the Israelis.

District's size

Haifa's district covered an area of 1,031.76 square kilometers, of which Jews owned 364.28 square kilometers (35.3% of the overall district size). In 1945, the district was made of 52 villages, and 14 bedouin localities. The Israeli Zionists destroyed all of these villages and bedouin localities with the exception of 'Ablein, Shefa 'Amr, 'Ibtin, 'Ara and 'Ar'ara, Kafer Qare'a, 'Aseifa, and Dalyat al-Karmel (Palestinian Druze village).

 https://www.palestineremembered.com/Haifa/Haifa/index.html

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The Israeli army’s repeated practice of running over Palestinians, whether alive or wounded, with tanks and bulldozers, is not a series of isolated incidents but one of the most brutal forms of deliberate killing carried out over the past two years

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor is a Geneva-based independent organization

Zaher Nasser Shamia, 16, from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. (Social Media)

Israeli bulldozer crushing of a wounded child exemplifies horrific killing pattern in Gaza

11 Dec 2025 

Palestinian Territory – An Israeli military bulldozer deliberately ran over a wounded Palestinian child, cutting his body in half while he was still alive, after shooting him and preventing medical aid from reaching him. This premeditated killing reflects extreme brutality and forms part of Israel’s ongoing pattern of targeting Palestinian civilians as a national group in the Gaza Strip within the broader two-year-long genocide.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s field team documented the injury of 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamia from Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip by Israeli forces on Wednesday afternoon, 10 December 2025. The wounded child lay bleeding, with no one able to reach him due to continuous gunfire. Minutes later, a military bulldozer advanced towards him and deliberately ran him over while he was still alive on the ground, splitting his body in two and tearing it into pieces.

In his testimony to Euro-Med Monitor, the child’s uncle said that Shamia had been near the Jabalia Services Club, about 50 metres from the Yellow Line, when Israeli army vehicles arrived at around 9 a.m. near the yellow concrete cubes amid heavy gunfire. Shamia remained in the camp until a friend told him that the army had withdrawn from the Yellow Line. He then walked with a group of friends towards the concrete cubes. As he reached the middle of al-Hadad Street, Israeli forces fired at him, most likely from a quadcopter drone, striking him in the head, according to eyewitnesses. He was seen still moving his head before his friends fled, leaving him lying on the ground.

The child’s uncle added that Israeli forces then fired smoke bombs and advanced towards Zaher’s location. Soldiers dismounted, and military bulldozers arrived to erect a berm in front of the yellow cement blocks. During this time, one of the bulldozers deliberately ran over Zaher’s body as he lay on the ground, tearing it into pieces. His friends were later able to collect the remains and transfer them to Al-Shifa Hospital.

The Israeli army’s repeated practice of running over Palestinians, whether alive or wounded, with tanks and bulldozers, is not a series of isolated incidents but one of the most brutal forms of deliberate killing carried out over the past two years. This reflects an organised policy to dehumanise Palestinians and inflict physical and psychological terror, forming an integral element of the genocide committed against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip.

Euro-Med Monitor also documented the Israeli army’s killing of 62-year-old Palestinian Jamal Hamdi Hassan Ashour, who was deliberately run over in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City, on 29 February 2024. Testimonies confirmed that soldiers arrested him, zip-tied his hands, and interrogated him before running him over with an armoured vehicle, crushing first the lower half of his body and then the upper half.

Another compound crime was documented on 27 June 2024, when Israeli forces targeted a family consisting of an elderly mother and her four children, including three daughters and a granddaughter barely a year and a half old... READ MORE   https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6942/Israeli-bulldozer-crushing-of-a-wounded-child-exemplifies-horrific-killing-pattern-in-Gaza 

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"It’s a deliberate policy, not a natural disaster. In fact, the UN specifically called on Israel to lift the restrictions on aid, making this headline deliberately misleading...." Assal Rad

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

 

It’s a deliberate policy, not a natural disaster.

 

 https://x.com/AssalRad/status/2001477328028012898/photo/1

In fact, the UN specifically called on Israel to lift the restrictions on aid, making this headline deliberately misleading.  The only time the article refers to Israel’s role in the lack of aid is to platform their denials.

https://x.com/AssalRad/status/2001479304275022137  

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OWEN JONES: "The letter notes that the BBC’s reporting on Israel and Palestine “falls short of our own editorial standards”, with “a gulf between the BBC’s coverage of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what our audiences can see is happening via multiple credible sources including human rights organisations, staff at the UN and journalists on the ground.”  https://www.owenjones.news/p/bbc-staff-were-forced-to-do-pro-israel

Assal Rad 

@AssalRad

 

Ethnic cleansing in plain sight. Where is the news coverage?

 

https://x.com/AssalRad/status/2001351467559719123 

 

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"Jews are not responsible for Israel's actions. Israel should not use them a shields, and no one should turn them into scapegoats. We reject any attempt to associate any religion with the crimes of state or non-state actors or individuals, whether Judaism, Islam or Christianity" Ambassador Riyad Mansour- of & for Palestine

"Difficult to function while a genocide in Gaza – which is still ongoing – and accelerated ethnic-cleansing in the West Bank unfolds. And it has been difficult to wrestle with the ways in which the media is complicit in what is happening. More than 200 Palestinians journalists have been killed in Gaza by Israel since 7 October; far too many journalists in the West have been silent about this. The scale of carnage in Gaza simply wouldn’t have been able to take place without the media dehumanizing Palestinians and manufacturing consent for atrocities...."

" For example: one of the biggest and most inflammatory talking points after 7 October – one which helped convince people there wasn’t a single innocent Palestinian civilian – was that Hamas beheaded 40 babies. Hamas committed verified atrocities, but this was a lie. It was one, however, which plenty of journalists, including CBS news correspondent and a CNN anchor, spread without properly confirming. The CNN anchor later apologized; CBS did not." Arwa Mahdawi

READ MORE  

 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/15/its-the-medias-job-to-hold-power-to-account-this-year-too-many-got-into-bed-with-it-instead 

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A protestor in Los Angeles, California. Photograph: David Swanson/Reuters

It’s the media’s job to hold power to account. This year, too many got into bed with it instead

Arwa Mahdawi

 The lines between advertising, public relations and journalism have become dangerously blurred

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Enough time has passed now, I think, that I can safely tell you about one of the stupidest things I have ever done. Almost a decade ago I decided to quit my well-paid job in advertising in order to pursue a precarious career in freelance journalism. The merits of that decision are up for debate but the real stupidity is in how I quit my job: I wrote a rather cringeworthy column for the Guardian about my “meaningless job in advertising” and publicly proclaimed that I’d decided to quit. My boss saw the piece and, well, he obviously wasn’t happy. (Sorry, Sean!)

I bring this embarrassing anecdote up because I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting recently on the reasons why I left advertising. Maybe this sounds twee, but I was sick of selling people things they didn’t need. I wanted to do something meaningful.

You know what, though? While selling underwear and vodka to the masses may not be entirely fulfilling, it’s better for the soul than selling people wars and genocide... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/15/its-the-medias-job-to-hold-power-to-account-this-year-too-many-got-into-bed-with-it-instead

"Archaeology has become yet another mechanism of oppression, alongside settler and military violence, movement restrictions, and daily dispossession. And while Palestinian communities resist with the few means available to them, Israeli archaeologists continue to legitimize and advance these forces. If Israeli archaeologists wish to maintain their academic legitimacy — and, more importantly, cease participating in an unethical project of colonial domination — they must heed the warnings of their international peers and reject the state’s cynical exploitation of their profession."

 Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank

Subordinating scientific value to colonial expansion, Israeli archeologists are putting up no resistance as the state moves to expropriate swaths of Sebastia.

By Alon Arad December 11, 2025

 

Graffiti sprayed on ancient archeological artifacts, in Sebastia, near the West Bank city of Nablus, May 12, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

https://www.972mag.com/sebastia-archeological-cleansing-west-bank/

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... On Nov. 19, Israel’s Civil Administration announced plans to expropriate 550 of Sebastia’s private plots — approximately 1,800 dunams (450 acres) of land that have been central to the village’s livelihood, cultural heritage, and identity for centuries. Residents say the project will devastate local agriculture, including destroying some 3,000 olive trees, some of which are hundreds of years old.

Sebastia is, undeniably, a multi-layered archaeological site of extraordinary value. Once the Iron Age city of Samaria, capital of the Kingdom of Israel, it contains remnants of King Ahab’s palace that were unearthed in the 1930s. In the first century BCE, King Herod of the Kingdom of Judea rebuilt the city, leaving behind a temple honoring his friend, Roman Emperor Augustus, near the older ruins. A well-preserved Roman theater, Byzantine church, and other antiquities have also been uncovered in the area.

But Sebastia’s archeological significance only sharpens the political contradiction at hand: While the site merits careful study, the gulf between the ethical commitments claimed by Israeli archaeologists and the state violence carried out in archaeology’s name to justify steps toward annexing the West Bank has never been more stark.

Israel’s takeover of Sebastia — its largest ever land expropriation for antiquities — began in May 2023, when the government allocated NIS 32 million for the site’s “restoration and development.” The campaign escalated in July 2024, when the military seized the summit of Tel Sebastia (the village’s highest point, home to its most significant archaeological remains) citing vague “security concerns.” Soon after, the government signaled plans to take over even more of the village. 

Palestinian residents — together with Emek Shaveh, the organization I direct — filed a formal objection with the Civil Administration, arguing that international law prohibits the use of cultural property for military purposes. The challenge was ultimately rejected.

Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu celebrated the expropriation online. “We will no longer hand over our inheritance to murderers,” he wrote on X last month. Eliyahu, a prominent advocate of West Bank annexation and Jewish resettlement in Gaza, added: “This is our historic homeland; we will never leave this place.”

Though the area currently targeted for excavation lies technically within Area C (under full Israeli control) and most of Sebastia’s built-up village falls within Area B (under Palestinian civil administration and Israeli security control), in practice the two zones form a single, continuous landscape. The village’s own antiquities are historically and culturally inseparable from those situated in Area C.

The new expropriation plan threatens to rupture that connection entirely. It envisions diverting Israeli visitors along a road settlers intend to build that bypasses the Palestinian village altogether, and includes constructing a visitor center, fencing off the archaeological zone, and charging entrance fees. If carried out, these measures would effectively cut Sebastia’s residents off from their land and heritage.

Archaeology in service of annexation

Israel’s use of archaeology to facilitate the takeover of Palestinian land — a practice that can aptly be described as “archaeological cleansing” — long predates Sebastia. For decades, the state has deployed this strategy both within the 1948 borders and across the West Bank: in East Jerusalem’s City of David park, in the village of Susya in the South Hebron Hills, in the Nabi Samwil national park, in Shiloh, and in numerous other sites. ... READ MORE 

  https://www.972mag.com/sebastia-archeological-cleansing-west-bank/

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