Dear President Biden ... Please stop supporting Israel and Israeli racism for everyone's sake.

Hope (أمل)، oil on canvas, 1985- Sliman Mansour "May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, many new inspirations to your life, and most importantly, may it be a year closer to a free Palestine."

 

Dear President Biden,

Good State of the Union speech last night. There is hope for America.

And deep within that hope that our democracy and economy will flourish for all Americans, not just a lucky few at the top, may I ask that we notice the very real plight of the Palestinians who have so little hope left due to rampant Israeli racism.

In 1948, after seeing the real horrors wrought by racism and the Nazi Holocaust, the world came together to create The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Modern man-made Israel, also created in 1948, has no excuse for being so cruel to the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine.

The Palestinian refugee crisis created by Zionists in 1948 goes on and on and on, with countless men women and children waiting for their inalienable legal and moral Right to Return to original homes and lands to be respected.  BUT Israel wants to be "Jewish", and so Israel demonizes and destroys people who object to that misguided notion. Palestinians get hit the hardest, but even American politicians and teachers who dare speak out risk their careers.

Please stand up for what is right and good. Set the right example. America should not be funding and fueling racism in any way shape or form.

Please notice that Israel built a land grabbing (apartheid) wall as if it supports a two state solution to end the Israel/Palestine conflict, but then at the same time Israel also builds and extends expensive Israeli-only road systems beyond the Israeli built "border" wall through out the illegally occupied territories, AND Israel also funds Jewish-only settlement neighborhoods beyond that "border" wall.  

Meanwhile Palestinians are harassed and cut off from their homes and families and employment due to Israeli checkpoints created to protect a cruel apartheid system...   NEVER AGAIN needs to include all human beings, not just Jewish ones.  Please stop supporting Israel and Israeli racism for everyone's sake.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

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"May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, many new inspirations to your life, and most importantly, may it be a year closer to a free Palestine." Sliman Mansour

Sliman Mansour: Hope (أمل)، oil on canvas, 1985

"May this year bring new happiness, new goals, new achievements, many new inspirations to your life, and most importantly, may it be a year closer to a free Palestine." Sliman Mansour

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Leila Giries' home in the Palestinian village of Ein Karem before and after it was destroyed in the 1948 war. Credit: Courtesy Leila Giries

'Everyone needs to see 'Farha''

Not a day goes by that Giries doesn't wonder what life would have been like if her family was not forced to leave their home in Ein Karem, now part of Jerusalem.

 

"When I went back 37 years later, I realized I remembered every single house and building that used to be there," Giries said. "That's how many times I traveled to Palestine in my mind, every single day, wanting to go back home."

 

She still has the bag her mother grabbed for her as they ran for their lives while the village burned, she said. It's framed and hanging on a wall in her California home, alongside the key to her family's Palestinian home, which was reduced to rubble.

 

Like most Palestinian refugees, Giries is forbidden from returning to live in Israel. Many Palestinian refugees and their descendants -- which the United Nations says now number 5 million people -- live in UN camps established in neighboring countries. Others are internally displaced throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

 

Mahmoud Salah, another survivor of al-Nakba, said the violence depicted in "Farha" was eerily similar to what he saw as he fled from the Palestinian village of Sar'a. After his family was expelled, they traveled by foot for six months, sheltering in caves and under trees as they searched for food and safety. He remembers every detail of that journey, from flyers dropped from airplanes urging Palestinians to flee, to the screams of villagers who lost loved ones.

 

To this day, Salah says he still thinks about life before al-Nakba, memories vivid with the beautiful colors of his homeland. "Since the day we were forced to leave, my eyes have been searching, searching for my village, for the books I left behind, for what of mine has been taken and destroyed," Salah, 90, told CNN from his home in Orland Park, a suburb of Chicago.

He said having his experience denied for so long only added to the pain and anger. "That feeling of being forced out of our home, our country, will never leave us.... READ MORE

 Written by Alaa Elassar, CNN

 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/farha-palestinian-film-nakba-darin-sallam-reaj/index.html

 AS ALWAYS PLEASE GO TOT THE ORIGINAL LINK TO READ THE STORY IN FULL

 

Palestinians relive the raw and painful history of al-Nakba in Netflix's new film 'Farha'

"Farha," released December 1 on Netflix, is inspired by the story of a young Palestinian girl and the violence she witnessed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when roughly 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes by armed Jewish groups in what Palestinians have since called al-Nakba or "the catastrophe."