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English artist: Cheryl Roberts Instagram: palestinian_solidarity_art |
Sunday, December 17, 2023
"My hero Wael Eldahdouh. If he wasn’t Palestinian, he’d be the most famous face in the world decorating the covers of every magazine as person of the year"
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My hero Wael Eldahdouh |
Omar Suleiman "My
hero Wael Eldahdouh. If he wasn’t Palestinian, he’d be the most famous
face in the world decorating the covers of every magazine as person of
the year. A man who has almost lost
his life multiple times, yet never lost the will to keep covering the
crimes against his people. When Israel bombed his wife and kids whom he
loved so dearly, he persisted. When they shot him and killed his
cameraman yesterday, he still cried out to the paramedics to go to those
who had more severe injuries. And he continued to report even from his
hospital bed. A symbol of courage. A symbol of hope. A symbol of faith. I
love you my brother Wael. May Allah preserve you for us, and unite you
with your loved ones once again in paradise. Ameen" {AMEN}
Gazans find themselves completely isolated - cut off from their loved ones and from the rest of the world.
There is a prolonged communications blackout across the #GazaStrip that started on Thursday night and has continued over the past 48 hours.
Once again, Gazans find themselves completely isolated - cut off from their loved ones and from the rest of the world.
Why is a foreign country so free to swindle and trick America into supporting religious tyranny and rampant injustice?!
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| 1948 Palestinian refugees refused their natural, logical, moral, ethical and legal right to return to original homes and lands. |
Dear Biden, Harris, & Congress..etc..,
Israel's war is a fierce war on the besieged & starving Palestinians, as well as a manipulative war of words on America everywhere I look:
Why is a foreign country so free to swindle and trick America into supporting religious tyranny and rampant injustice?!
Read the international papers- Israeli leaders are clear they do not want a Palestinian state. Jews worldwide can move to Israel & Jews worldwide are also able to return to original homes and lands throughout Europe (& get EU citizenship) since the Nazi Holocaust.
BUT Israel refuses to allow
Palestinians to return to their original homes and lands in historic
Palestine.
UNWRA was created in 1950 to aid Arabs pushed out of their homes in historic Palestine by Jewish terrorists.
Meanwhile 75 years since the founding of Israel the forced displacement
& murder of Palestinian men, women and children continues as Israeli
soldiers and settlers harass, impoverish, & kill Palestinians in
the West Bank, and the IDF aggressively bombs and kills Palestinians
trapped in Gaza.
The Israeli war of words here in America is also escalating with Israeli lies & misinformation obscuring and hiding the very real plight & suffering of the Palestinians:
On twitter today a post by UNWRA "You cannot deliver aid under a sky full of airstrikes" gets a huge nasty negative response from Zionists eager to #defundUNWRA.
On our mainstream TV Zionists create slick content and commercials to gain more American support.
There are Zionist charities advertising-
begging for individual donations from the naive... meanwhile every American tax payer is forced to fund Israel.
Why is Israel's ongoing RACIST persecution, oppression, displacement, and murder of the native non-Jewish men, women, and children of Palestine ignored by our mainstream media ?!
Why are we being led astray by our Fourth Estate,
our elected officials, and far too many churches & religious
leaders.
Religion should be a private choice- not state funded.
Sincerely
Anne Selden Annab
American Homemaker & Poet
NOTES
"You cannot deliver aid under a sky full of airstrikes" UNWRA's Juliette Touma
Always remembering Palestine, no matter where we are, who we are, or what we are doing ... #Flag #FreePalestine
"Faith is the history of many generations, which gives ordinary people the power to carry on, even after 71 days of genocide. Faith is the secret ingredient that propels Palestinian forward until they win their freedom." Ramzy Baroud
Under the shadow of war in Gaza, Jesus’ traditional birthplace is gearing up for a subdued Christmas... "More than 18,700 Palestinians have been killed and more than 50,000 wounded during Israel’s blistering air and ground offensive against Gaza"
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel "indifference to evil is worse than evil itself..."
Israeli sniper murdered two Palestinian CHRISTIAN women inside The Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where many of Gaza's Christians have taken shelter
Al Jazeera has referred Israel's most recent targeted intentional assassination of journalist Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court.
One the most iconic images of the Holy Land is the fish and loaves mosaic in the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.
Christmas Carols & Lessons with Bethlehem, Praying for Peace in the Holy Land and celebrating hope - December 16th 2023 at 10am EST & 5pm Bethlehem time
Father Yusif Asead celebrating Mass in Gaza in the most horrifying conditions.
Star of Bethlehem Quilt circa 1845 & Susan Muaddi Darraj's friendly annual reminder that this symbol you see everywhere this time of year is *not* a snowflake.
Christ was a Palestinian ... a small collection of (older) poems by Anne Selden Annab in Growing Gardens for Palestine #Christmas
How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video in The Guardian
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
TikTok isn’t creating false support for Palestine. It’s just reflecting what’s already there.
106 years ago (11 December 1917) the #Crusaders returned, led by England's General Allenby- his name now a bridge where Palestinians wait to be harassed by racist Israel's minions
With the children of #Gaza on my mind and forever in my heart 💔 Moonlight...By Mike Odetalla
If Americans Knew- The number of motherless, fatherless babies and children in Gaza is skyrocketing.
An American Muslim student’s perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli crisis in the Stanford Daily December 8 2023
Speak Up For Those Who Cannot Speak for Themselves, for the Rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and Judge Fairly...
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
Spread the word: End the Genocide in Gaza
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
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
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.
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.
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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Nativity
in Bethlehem 2023 - Baby Jesus in the rubble, a symbol of hope
reflecting the current reality of the Israeli made genocide in Gaza
right now. Pastor
Munther Isaac & |
"You cannot deliver aid under a sky full of airstrikes" UNWRA's Juliette Touma
Continued heavy Israeli Forces’ bombardments of the #GazaStrip, imposed access restrictions and limited humanitarian supplies detrimentally impedes @UNRWA's ability to provide aid.
#Gaza is becoming the graveyard of a population trapped between war, siege and deprivation.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Always remembering Palestine, no matter where we are, who we are, or what we are doing ... #Flag #FreePalestine
meanwhile... here in America
Ingredients:
Slice if whole grain toast
Lebneh/Greek yogurt
Slices of tomatoes
Pitted black olives
Zatar/thyme mix
Olive oil
Slice if whole grain toast
Lebneh/Greek yogurt
Slices of tomatoes
Pitted black olives
Zatar/thyme mix
Olive oil
Arrange and enjoy your heathy Palestinian 
sandwich for anytime of the day 
sandwich for anytime of the day "Faith is the history of many generations, which gives ordinary people the power to carry on, even after 71 days of genocide. Faith is the secret ingredient that propels Palestinian forward until they win their freedom." Ramzy Baroud
Faith is a collective experience. A Legacy. Faith is the history of many generations, which gives ordinary people the power to carry on, even after 71 days of genocide. Faith is the secret ingredient that propels Palestinian forward until they win their freedom. Faith is #Gaza.
Under the shadow of war in Gaza, Jesus’ traditional birthplace is gearing up for a subdued Christmas... "More than 18,700 Palestinians have been killed and more than 50,000 wounded during Israel’s blistering air and ground offensive against Gaza"
Cancellation of Christmas festivities, which typically draw thousands of visitors, is a severe blow to Bethlehem's tourism-dependent economy: “The economy is crashing. But if we compare it with what’s happening to our people and Gaza, it’s nothing.”
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| Manger Square Bethlehem Palestine |
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square, after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due to the Israel-Hamas war.
The cancellation of Christmas festivities, which typically draw thousands of visitors, is a severe blow to the town’s tourism-dependent economy. But joyous revelry is untenable at a time of immense suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, said Mayor Hana Haniyeh.
“The economy is crashing,” Haniyeh told The Associated Press on Friday. “But if we compare it with what’s happening to our people and Gaza, it’s nothing.”
More than 18,700 Palestinians have been killed and more than 50,000 wounded during Israel’s blistering air and ground offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers, according to health officials there, while some 85% of the territory’s 2.3 million residents have been displaced. The war was triggered by Hamas’ deadly assault Oct. 7 on southern Israel" ... READ MOREhttps://apnews.com/article/bethlehem-west-bank-israel-hamas-war-a42bbd967c27a68f71f8aace59387963
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel "indifference to evil is worse than evil itself..."
Born in Warsaw Poland in 1907, graduated from University of Berlin died in 1972 in New York City. In late October 1938, when Heschel was living in a rented room in the home of a Jewish family in Frankfurt, he was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Poland in the Polenaktion.
Heschel's sister Esther was killed in a German bombing. His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps. He never returned to Germany, Austria or Poland. He once wrote, "If I should go to Poland or Germany, every stone, every tree would remind me of contempt, hatred, murder, of children killed, of mothers burned alive, of human beings asphyxiated.
Heschel arrived in New York City in March 1940
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel believed that no religious community could claim a monopoly on religious truth. For these and other reasons, Martin Luther King Jr. called Heschel "a truly great prophet." Heschel actively participated in the Civil Rights movement, and was a participant in the third Selma to Montgomery march, accompanying Dr. King and John Lewis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel
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| Heschel, left, presenting the Judaism and World Peace Award to Martin Luther King Jr., December 7, 1965 |
"The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference."
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason."
"Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art."
"Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will."
Israeli sniper murdered two Palestinian CHRISTIAN women inside The Holy Family Parish in Gaza, where many of Gaza's Christians have taken shelter
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Al Jazeera has referred Israel's most recent targeted intentional assassination of journalist Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court.
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| Al Jazeera has referred the "assassination" of its journalist Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court. |
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| Samer Abu Daqqa - Palestinian photojournalist, killed bu an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza |
The Guardian: "Cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa and correspondent Wael al-Dahdouh had gone to Farhana school in the southern city of Khan Younis after it was hit by a strike earlier in the day. While they were there, an Israeli drone hit the school with a second strike, the network said.
“The network holds Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing their journalists and their families,” Al Jazeera said in a statement.
“Following Samer’s injury he was left to bleed to death for over five hours, as Israeli forces prevented ambulances and rescue workers from reaching him, denying the much-needed emergency treatment,” it continued."
Samer Abu Daqqa died after attack while network’s chief correspondent in territory, Wael al-Dahdouh, was injured https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/16/al-jazeera-cameraman-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-gaza-school-broadcaster-says
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Al Jazeera has referred the "assassination" of its journalist Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court.
The Al Jazeera cameraman died on Friday after going to Farhana school in the southern city of Khan Younis after it was hit by a strike earlier in the day.
While he was there, a missile the Qatari-based network says was fired by an Israeli drone hit the school with a second strike, badly injuring Abu Daqqa.
The Israeli military prevented emergency services from reaching him, resulting in him bleeding to death.
"We decided to urgently refer the case of the assassination of our colleague photographer Samer Abu Daqqa to the International Criminal Court," Al Jazeera tweeted on Saturday.
Samer Abu Daqqa was murdered on 15 December 2023 "during an air strike that targeted the Al Jazeera crew while covering the Haifa School airstrike in Khan Yunis during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. Wael Al-Dahdouh
was injured in his hand and stomach, but was able to withdraw on foot.
Samer, however, was unable to withdraw after his injury and continued to
bleed for more than five hours, eventually succumbing to his wounds.
Abu Daqqa was 45" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samer_Abu_Daqqa
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| Wael Dahdouh lost his wife, as well as a son, a daughter and a grandson, in what Al Jazeera reported was an Israeli airstrike that hit Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza. Another son, Yehia, was seriously wounded. |
"It's a difficult moment in the life of a Palestinian journalist, when they go to cover an incident for the news and find out that the news is their own family" Wael Dahdouh
Taj Ali
"The IDF killed his wife, daughter, son and grandson.
Yesterday they injured him & killed his colleague Samer Abu Daqqa.
And continues to report.
Solidarity with him & every journalist in Gaza. Without them, many of the horrors on the ground would remain invisible."
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