Showing posts with label 1948- 2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1948- 2023. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Land Day 2024 Palestine: In 1976 it was 6 unarmed farmers murdered by Israeli forces, this year it is more than 32,704 + Palestinian people murdered by Israeli forces, mostly women & children have been killed
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| "We have on this earth what makes life worth living"Mahmoud Darwish |
Every year on March 30, Palestinians observe Land Day, or Yom al-Ard,
recalling the events of March 30, 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians
were killed and more than 100 injured by Israeli forces during protests
against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land.
Israel has continued to seize large swaths of Palestinian land, designating them as military zones, state land and other labels. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/30/land-day-what-happened-in-palestine-in-1976
Settlements – illegal under international law – are Jewish-only communities built on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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| 48 years on and we are witnessing the continuation of this with Israeli attempts at ethnically cleansing Gaza by genocide. #ceasefireNOW |
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Today we mark the 48th anniversary of #LandDay.
Israel’s colonialism never abated and in the occupied West Bank, it has got only worse since 7 Oct 2023:
27,000 acres of land seized
There are 840 checkpoints and barriers aimed at disrupting the Palestinian right to movement
25 Bedouin communities were displaced from their lands
9,600 olive trees uprooted
Today is #LandDay in Palestine and I managed to get a text from my younger brother Tareq for the 1st time since the Israeli genocide started. His house got bombed in Jabalia and he is now in Rafah in a tent, still hoping to return to the North #Gaza
BDS worldwide- for Palestine @BDSmovement On the 48th anniversary of Land Day, let’s not just commemorate Israel’s past crimes, but also fight to end its ongoing #GazaGenocide as well as its ongoing Nakba, and, most importantly, to ultimately dismantle its underlying apartheid.
MIFTAH- Free Palestine https://twitter.com/miftahpal
Land Day is a day of commemoration of the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation's ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinian people.
Today marks the 48th anniversary of Land Day.
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| 2024 "Of course, for the Palestinians, we did not need an international court
to tell us that Israel is committing a genocide, but it was cathartic to
hear this acknowledged on a global platform." |
& SPEAKING OF HOSTAGES....
9000 Palestinians, including children, are currently held hostage by Israel - jailed (& tortured) most with out charge or trial LAND DAY 2024 #Genocide
The
number of Palestinians held in Israel jails has reached 9,000 as of
March 30th which is celebrated in Palestine as Land Day according to Pa
Prisoner club.
Since October 7th 7,870 have been detained some were released , most
have stayed in jail most without charge or trial
Saturday, March 2, 2024
In 1948 Israel could have chosen to include all indigenous Arabs- Christian and Muslim- as part of the process to make a real democracy for all human beings, but Zionists did the opposite by creating a huge refugee crisis.
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Old PHOTO: Palestine, 1948. Refugees [try to] return to their village after
surrendering in the war against Israel. The conflict forced 85 percent
of the Palestinian population living in what became Israel to leave
their homes. Their right to return was writen into a U.N. resolution
that year, but 65 years later this issue has yet to be resolved. |
Dear President Biden,
It is villainous for American leadership to empower Israel's ongoing quest to ethnically cleanse the Holy Land from the river to the sea.
Israel is a cruel war machine: We should not be arming and enabling Israel's violations of international law and basic human rights.
Every IDF soldier and Zionist settler is forced to look back knowing
their crimes against humanity. They have to live with themselves either
by feeling remorse & soul crushing guilt, OR by finding solace in a
boundless DENIAL that what Israel has been doing to the native
non-Jewish Palestinians is absolutely wicked and wrong.
Denial is a major component of Israeli life and public relations as
Zionists seek to gather funds and support from individuals and
governments every where and in every way worldwide. Our Congress and our
national newspapers are pawns for racist Israel as they foolishly
foster monstrous misinformation provided by the nefarious agents of a
foreign country.
I abhor HAMAS, but please start noticing that for the past 100 years
Zionists have set the example of arming religion and using terrorism to
gain land and political power. Israel wants HAMAS to thrive, to demonize and further
undermine Palestinians' quest for real freedom, justice, and true
democracy.
In 1948 Israel could have chosen to include all indigenous Arabs-
Christian and Muslim- as part of the process to make a real democracy
for all human beings, but Zionists did the opposite by creating a huge
refugee crisis.
Air dropping food to the starving people trapped in Gaza while also
arming Apartheid
Israel with lethal weaponry, money AND a green light to further
impoverish and displace Palestinian men, women and children is a PR
stunt. A more honorable and helpful way forward is to PLEASE RESTORE
FUNDING TO UNWRA ...
& Please STOP FUNDING ISRAEL for everyone's sake.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
A tenth child in a Gaza hospital has been registered as dying from starvation and warns 'real figure is likely to be higher'
Palestinians face assault by [Israeli] gun, bulldozer and attack dog- ‘They took our home, our land, everything’: Palestinians displaced by illegal settlers tell their stories
Rev’d Munther Isaac, Pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church, Bethlehem in Palestine: "When churches justify a genocide or are silent...."
Israeli Soldiers Just Murdered 103 Starving Palestinian Civilians, Wounded 700, as the Palestinians waited for aid
Israel, Palestine, Democracy... and the Rule of Fair and Just Laws & Policies- for a true and lasting peace
UN’s Palestinian aid agency UNWRA ‘at breaking point’ after $450m budget shortfall
The world should thank South Africa for standing against genocide in Gaza
The Guardian: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, United Nations rights expert say
US Air Force member died setting himself on fire outside Israeli Embassy Washington DC #FreePalestine Aaron Bushnell 1999-2024
Gary Burge, Wheaton College professor, explaining why he is no longer a Christian Zionist.
Famous #Gaza artist Fathi Ghaben passed away this morning while awaiting Israeli permission to travel abroad for medical treatment, despite numerous appeals.
The New Yorker: My Family’s Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza by Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha
Jews don watermelon kippahs in Gaza solidarity #Palestine
Where you stand matters
Every nation that has divested funding from UNWRA is complicit in the starvation of human beings... and the torture of children
Our beloved "friend" Israel has been actively oppressing, demonizing, impoverishing, and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine and has been since 1948.
"I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can be overridden by American intellectuals just because the “security” of Israel demands it" Edward Said
Violence is the feel good answer in movies & on TV- not in real life
Religion should be a personal choice, not a state funded project.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights "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..."
Friday, January 5, 2024
Dear President Biden: Stop racist hate- start by stopping Israeli violence, and the Zionist stranglehold on your brain.
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Can you see her? |
American newspapers tend to simply reprint Israeli propaganda,
exasperating a cruel situation and ignoring the very real plight and
suffering of the native non-Jewish men, women and children of historic
Palestine. In response, many people, especially younger smarter people,
aren't really bothering with America's mainstream newspapers- they are
getting a plethora of Pro-Palestine news and opinion online through web
sites, and through social media sites.
American leadership is idiotic to stew in Zionist news and opinion,
rather than seeking out the full and total truth. Open your eyes, your
mind and your heart. Humanity needs honorable leadership- and a CEASEFIRE NOW !
76
years ago, following the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born "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..."
60
years ago America's Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in
public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex or national origin. This is considered
one of the crowning legislative achievements of our collective
civil rights movement.
So
why exactly are you forcing American tax payers to fund and empower
Israel's segregation policies and Apartheid in The Holy Land?
Why are you arming Israel's destruction of Gaza?
Stop racist hate- start by stopping Israeli violence, and the Zionist stranglehold on your brain.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
My letter to USA Today 1-5-2024 RE 50-year friendship offers a close look at caring dialogue on Israeli-Palestinian conflict
My letter to the New Yorker RE Mosab Abu Toha's A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza
Ibtisam Barakat: A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace- Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
But where should people go...
Shereen Audi "I really wanted to spread some hope and positivity and give that feeling to the world and to everyone who needs it... all I wish for Palestine and for our world is peace and light.."
Ottoman Era Palestine circa 1890's... Palestinian fishermen in Tiberias (Tabriya)
May the new year bring a free Palestine. Jordanian artist: اسامه حجاج-Osama Hajjaj Instagram: osamahajjaj
Israel eases up on bombing parts of Gaza, but only as famine and disease take their hold.
I hear reports and see TV commercials showing that Anti-Semitism and other forms of racist hate is increasing. We need to stop that trend
Together, we have the power to shift the narrative on Palestine and build a future of collective liberation- Visualizing Palestine NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
Homeless in my homeland by Hanin A. Elholy
Almost all the universities in Gaza destroyed or damaged. A huge amount of students and academic staff killed.
Mosab Abu Toha · Heartbreaking to learn that Ammar Ghraiba, a young motion graphic designer and an aspiring filmmaker, got killed today. Our journalists, poets, and filmmakers are killed. But the story, the poem, and the film continue.
Like Palestinians in the rest of east Jerusalem, most Armenians do not hold Israeli citizenship but only residency...
The Jewish settlers 'living the American dream' in the West Bank
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Ibtisam Barakat: A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace- Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
World / January 3, 2024
A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace
Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
The violence in Gaza may have started on October 7, 2023 for Israel and for the world. But for Palestinians it started 75 years ago, and never stopped.
My Palestinian mother is 79 years old. She grew up in Jerusalem. Seventy-five years ago, she was 4 years old, and Israel drove her, her family, and all of her village out of their homes, which they would never see again. They became part of the Palestinian diaspora.
During the attack on Kharrouba, my mother’s village, she was asleep and when everyone fled, she was left behind. My grandfather walked for 16 hours, risking his life, to find her. That trauma still marks every day of my mother’s life.
Kharruba, her town of origin, was one of more than 400 Palestinian towns and villages that were either depopulated violently or destroyed after Palestine was torn up and Israel came into being on May 14, 1948.... READ MORE https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-gaza-children-peace/
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
All I want for Christmas is a Right of Return FREE PALESTINE
…the [Palestinian] refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible.
Resolution 194 endorsed the right of Palestinian refugees to choose whether to repatriate to what is now Israel or to be resettled elsewhere, and codified the accepted principles of customary international law. It has been reaffirmed by the General Assembly every year since its adoption.
The right of return for all refugees also is well-established under other international law, including:
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted in 1948): “Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country” (Art. 13(2)).
Sunday, December 24, 2023
In solidarity with the people of Gaza, Bethlehem cancels its annual Christmas festivities. #Palestine #Christians
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| Church of Nativity photo by Isam Telhami |
Shibley Telhami
In solidarity with the people of Gaza, Bethlehem cancels its annual Christmas festivities.
Friday, December 22, 2023
Historical photo of the day: In 2011, thirteen thousand Palestinian children smashed a Guinness World Record on a beach in northern Gaza for the largest number of people flying kites simultaneously.
Thanks to Mike Hanini Odetalla (born in Palestine) for posting this comment & photo on social media this morning
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Donia had lost her parents and two siblings in an Israeli strike. She was getting treatment in the hospital after she lost her leg in a previous Israeli strike when she was killed by yet another Israeli shelling.
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| Donia Abu Mohsen |
The young Palestinian who was killed by Israel's shelling of another hospital in Gaza is Donia Abu Mohsen.
Donia had lost her parents and two siblings in an earlier Israeli air strike on her family home. She was getting treatment in the Naser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis because she lost her leg in a that Israeli strike on her family home in Gaza.
This young girl and her family deserved to live, to love, to laugh and run and be free. Instead they were trapped in Gaza- victims of Israel's genocidal war on Palestine.
UNICIF: She dreamed of becoming a lawyer. "I feel injustice; when I grow up, I will be a lawyer so that I can enjoy my rights and the rights of all children"
Children urgently need a lasting humanitarian ceasefire. Now.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
My elderly relatives first fled for their lives in 1948. In Gaza right now they are walking the Nakba again- Ghada Ageel in The Guardian
Their story is that of thousands of other Palestinians: forced to move time and time again, their homes lost or destroyed
A Palestinian drags bricks at a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/a-second-nakba-in-gaza
A friend sent me a cartoon this week. It showed two elderly gentlemen sitting in comfortable chairs. One says to the other: “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” “Yes,” agrees the other gentleman, “and those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
In the case of the heartbreaking devastation in my home town of Khan Younis, this seems like an especially cruel joke. Witnessing this genocide unfolding, I find myself failing to find much to laugh at.
My brother-in-law, Abu Issam, 88, and his wife, Um Issam, 84, are originally from Swafeer. The village no longer exists. It was obliterated, with more than 500 Palestinian towns and villages, in the 1948 Nakba, the mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and lands after the creation of Israel.
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| Abu Issam with his niece Ghaida Hamdan in Khan Younis camp. |
Fleeing
the destruction in Swafeer in 1948, Abu Issam sought refuge in the
nearby village of Hamama. When Hamama also came under attack, the family
continued their journey to the Palestinian town of al-Sdud (present-day
Isdud), then to al-Majdal (present-day Ashkelon), then to Beit Hanoun
in the Gaza Strip, finally ending up in Khan Younis refugee camp.
Back then, Abu Issam was about to become a teenager. Today he walks with a stick, slowly, stopping for rest, then slowly again. And yet his future remains as uncertain today as it was in 1948.
Already very densely populated, Khan Younis had become a sanctuary for those fleeing bombing in the north of Gaza – only for the offensive to follow them there.... READ MORE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/14/a-second-nakba-in-gaza
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Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Crucial progress in human history is being swatted away by Biden's bungling and blundering Israel first perspective... my letter to my elected officials here in America
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| US VETO by @yassindraws |
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe” Joe Biden- current President of the United States, celebrating Hanukkah at the White House this week by promising Israel more "military assistance"...
So
the hell with American law, our Bill of Rights, our separation of
church from state, and generations of brave and valiant civil rights
work here in America so that these United States can become a more real
democracy with more freedom, justice, jobs, respect and true equality
for all people regardless of supposed race or religion ?!!!
What about all the good and decent people who died in WWII to stop the Nazi Holocaust or because of the Nazi Holocaust. And what about the 1948 creation of The United Nations and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights!
Crucial progress in human history is being swatted away by Biden's bungling and blundering Israel first perspective.
I
object to forcing all Jews world wide to be part of Israel and Israel's
demented war on the native non-Jewish men, women and children of
historic Palestine.
I
object to a person's apparent religion shaping citizenship rights, and I
object to arming religion and religious "scholars" with tax payer's
money and lethal weaponry.
I object to crimes against humanity, I object to HAMAS, and I object to Israeli violence and Apartheid.
Oh
and when you deploy the word anti-Semitic, start noticing that Semites
include all who spoke or speak Semitic languages- technically including both Arabs
and Jews.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
Spread the word: End the Genocide in Gaza
UNRWA Situation Report #49 on the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem- Monday, December 11, 2023
UN agency staff in Gaza feels "abandoned" after US vetoed ceasefire resolution... “Too many people haven't eaten now for two, three days in the Gaza Strip,”
Harvard and UPenn presidents walked into a trap in Congress- they were asked about non-existent calls for genocide on American campuses, while the potential dangers of genocide in Gaza were ignored
100 Rabbis in New York City created and lit a beautiful CEASEFIRE menorah for Hanukkah 2023
Our Congress created a storm of news condemning "anti-Semitism", a storm of news that totally ignores the very real plight and suffering of the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine (who also happen to be Semites)
It’s sadly reported that one of Gaza’s most prominent poets, Saleem Al-Naffar, has been buried since last Thursday with his family under the rubble of the house where he sought refuge in Gaza City. The bodies can’t be retrieved. No one can check whether any person can be rescued.
Palestinians cancel Christmas celebrations amid Gaza devastation: 'No celebrations during genocide'
Israel-Palestine war: Why Gaza genocide is seen as an existential threat to Jordan
Joe Biden and other Western leaders will say all the right words. But what they’re allowing Israel to do in Gaza just makes human rights work harder in the Middle East.
Ramallah Friends School Song to the World
Today, Human Rights Day marks the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration. If there was ever a moment to rekindle the hope of human rights for everyone, it is now.- Forge a path of hope, unity and justice with Morgan Freeman
DEMOCRACY NOW interview 2023:“Terrorized”: Gaza Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Being Stripped, Jailed & Beaten by Israeli Forces
This olive tree is situated on the Hebron Road just outside Bethlehem. It marks a contrast with the brutal and life-restricting Wall of Separation behind it, which fences in the Palestinian people.
Palestinian Tatreez designs decorating a Christmas Cake
Christmas Carols & Lessons with Bethlehem, Praying for Peace in the Holy Land and celebrating hope - December 16th 2023 at 10am EST & 5pm Bethlehem time
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is less complicated than you've been taught
There is mass murder [GENOCIDE] being carried out in Gaza and the world is just watching. This can’t go on
SHAME ON US for the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!
The Palestinian poet, writer, literature professor, and activist Dr. Refaat Alareer was killed today in a targeted Israeli airstrike that also killed his brother, his sister, and her four children.
Palestinians at UN distribution points in Gaza - 2.2 million people are food insecure. People are dying from bombs and soon many will die from consequences of the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza.
We are not numbers- Lubna Alyaan, a 14-year-old prodigious musician, aspired to achieve international acclaim as a violinist, proudly representing her homeland #Palestine: Killed by Israeli bombs with her family in Gaza 2023.
Who Shall Remember How? Palestinian Poets Respond- gems in The Los Angeles Review of Books December 4th 2023
The sacred between mother and child captured in two images across time... Palestine past & Palestine present.
The Little Prince and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - both 75 years old & And both impart messages of hope and dignity that are available for all.
“It’s super dangerous. It sets a really, really bad precedent. It’s aiming to criminalise our liberation struggle and our call for justice and peace and equality,” Husam Marajda
Pointing out facts about Israeli Apartheid and Zionist brutality is not racism... my letter to my elected leaders
We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights - Greta Thunberg
U.S. and Israeli MILITARISM fuels GENOCIDE and ECOCIDE
Pray for Palestine
An Ongoing Displacement- The Forced Exile of the Palestinians since 1922
Invest Time & Money in American Ideals - NOT ISRAEL ... letter to my elected officials
Today's Nativity scene inspired by Israeli Bombing Campaigns 2023 #Gaza #Bethlehem, #Palestine #Christmas
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| 1948: 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... READ MORE |
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