APARTHEID: Wrong in South Africa, Wrong in Palestine

APARTHEID: Wrong in South Africa, Wrong in Palestine

APARTHEIDWrong in South Africa, Wrong in Palestine

Palestinian embroidery continues to be an important symbol of Palestinian culture & identity worldwide #Thobe

Once a traditional craft practiced by village women, Palestinian embroidery continues to be an important symbol of Palestinian culture & identity. A rich artistic tradition passed down through generations, it is now common in all of Palestine & among members of the diaspora

The UN will commemorate Nakba Day for the first time in 2023: Nakba Day acknowledges ongoing Israeli aggression and the Zionist destruction of Palestinian lives and peace in Palestine

& Nakba Day marks the official beginning of the ongoing Palestinian Refugee crisis as Israel continues to destroy Palestinian homes, displacing Palestinian men, women, and children, and denying Palestinian refugees the inalienable natural and legal right to return to original homes and lands.  Israel continues to usurp Palestinian land, rights & freedom...

Nakba Day is marked annually by Palestinians on May 15 to remember the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and areas in 1948 after the founding of Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd & singer-songwriter Mustafa the Poet share their thoughts on Palestine, searching for beauty in a wounded world, and the enduring power of poetry to liberate

"Incidentally, the award-winning writer and poet was born exactly 50 years after 15 May 1948, a day known to Palestinians as the Nakba. It is perhaps destiny, then, that both Mohammed and his twin sister Muna live and breathe Palestinian politics. Aged 11, they watched a group of settlers forcibly take over half of their home, and throw out and burn their family’s possessions. To this day, the settlers still occupy the annex to their family home that’s located in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah."  

The Story of Mohammed El-Kurd

GQ Middle East sat down with writer and poet Mohammed El-Kurd, together with his friend, singer-songwriter Mustafa the Poet. The two shared their thoughts on Palestine, searching for beauty in a wounded world, and the enduring power of poetry to liberate. 

 

 AS Always PLEASE go the the original link to read the story in full, and in this case to see the lovely photographs

https://www.gqmiddleeast.com/features/mohammed-el-kurd-gq-middle-east-2023

Photo from poet Mohammed El-Kurd's twitter

Hauntingly beautiful FAIRUZ - "Wa Habibi" An Arab Christian Hymn (with english subtitles)

Traditional Arabic/Syrian, Christian hymn, that is sung during the Good Friday ceremony in homage to passions and death of Jesus Christ. Strongly branded by the interpretation of the unique voice of Fairuz.

Palestine ... the stone rolled away

Palestine

 

Growing Gardens for Palestine... Sliman Mansour: The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

 Sliman Mansour: The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

The Nazarene (الناصري), oil on canvas, 1993 . Happy Easter from Palestine عيد فصح مجيد من فلسطين

 

The Last Supper #Palestine - painting by Sliman Mansour oil on canvas, 1994

 

Israel's System of Silencing- stifling the facts & any real hope for true peace and justice in The Holy Land

Zionist Israel's System of Silencing- stifling the facts & any real hope for true peace and justice in The Holy Land

 "The decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been largely a political one, even though the Zionist movement has used religion to advance its claims of a divine right to the land of Palestine. But, as far as the international community was concerned, Israel was acting as a democratic civilized country that believed in the right of worship and respected humanitarian law. Efforts by Palestinians, Israelis and international NGOs to expose this lie went unnoticed until hundreds of thousands of Israeli Jews demonstrated in opposition to what they perceived as undemocratic moves even against fellow (largely secular) Jewish Israelis."  Daoud Kuttab

Warnings of Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa were ignored. Why?

As Always please go to the original link and read the article in full

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2281961

My letter published in my local newspaper "I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning" PennLive letters

I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning

I agree with Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning | PennLive letters

• Published: Apr. 03, 2023, 11:03 a.m.  PennLive/ The Patriot News Letters to the Editor
  

Regarding Daoud Kuttab’s clear headed warning “When hatred replaces hope, how can there be peace in Israel?” in the Sunday March 26, 2023 news. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s expansionist map reaching far beyond the Jordan River across all of Jordan and into parts of Lebanon and Syria really should be a wake up call to American supporters and politicians.

In 1948, after the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust the world came together to create the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the “foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.”

Tragically, Israel has been violating the basic human rights of the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine since 1948 by systematically impoverishing and displacing the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of historic Palestine.

Zionism is a state-sponsored project shaping freedom, rights, jobs, investments, and housing projects for Zionist Jews. Zionism clearly inspires and rewards religious extremism on every side. This situation is insane and wrong ... and very dangerous!

We should be funding real freedom and democracy and jobs here in America, and we should be collectively investing in freedom of and from religion: Respect and compassion for all God’s children, no matter what their names.

Anne Selden Annab, Mechanicsburg Pa.

https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2023/04/i-agree-with-daoud-kuttabs-clear-headed-warning-pennlive-letters.html

1839 Palestine: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem print by David Roberts

1839 Palestine: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem print by David Roberts