And this was on Huffpo– Absolutely stunning piece in the Independent, by Fares Akram, who, huddled with his pregnant wife and family in Gaza city, and decided not to be on his 48-year-old father's farm, the closest farm to the Israeli border.
the house at our small farm in northern Gaza. My father was walking from the
gate to the farmhouse at the time…
My father, Akrem al-Ghoul, was no militant. Born in Gaza and educated in
Egypt, he was a lawyer and a judge who worked for the Palestinian Authority.
After Hamas took over, he quit and turned to agriculture. Dad's father,
Fares, who had been driven out of his home in what is now Israeli Ashkelon
in 1948, had bought the land in the 1960s.
Many of the cows killed. Body of teenage Mahmoud thrown 300 meters by the strike. Read this piece and you will understand why my friend James North says the most salient aspect of the Arab temperament revealed by the Nakba and the continuing dispossession of lands and resources is:
Restraint.
Thanks to Leila Abu-Saba, who writes: "This piece was on Huffington Post's front page just now, with a photo of a 48
year old lawyer holding his darling grand-daughter. One of those
pictures where you don't know if the man in question is an Israeli
Jewish casualty or a Palestinian casualty… what's
most interesting is that Huffpost runs this front page with photo.
They also are running that Gideon Levy piece with a picture, front and
center. I would have thought these are too incendiary for the
mainstream US press, and Huff Post prints liberal Israel apologizers
all the time.
Something is changing"
