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umkahlil

school teacher mother Palestinian-American

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  • 'Take me back to my homeland, even as a rose'
    • umkahlil January 10, 2010 at 2:40 am with 1 replies

      In response to Gershon Baskin, a friendly Zionist who opposes right of return for Palestinians, Dr. Salman Abu Sitta writes:

      Baskin, true “friendship” should go to the Israelis to help shake them off their collective amnesia about what they have done and are doing to the Palestinians and to advise them that their salvation lies in shedding racism fully and forever. They have to amend their ways, reverse ethnic cleansing and make reparations.

      For it is clear that the history of Jews will ultimately be marked indelibly, and above all other historical events, by what they have done in Palestine.

      link to plands.org

  • an innocent in Israel
    • umkahlil January 7, 2010 at 5:46 pm with 3 replies

      Please read "Jaffa: From Eminence to Ethnic Cleansing," a history of Jaffa from the time of the Nakba to the present.

      link to palestineremembered.com
      A brief excerpt from the introduction of this detailed study:

      "Jaffa was also the cultural capital of Palestine, being home to tens of the most important newspapers and publication houses in the country, including the dailies Filastin and al-Difa'. The most important and ornate cinemas were in Jaffa, as were tens of athletics clubs and cultural societies. The headquarters of some of these societies, like the Orthodox Club and the Islamic Club, have themselves become historic sites still testifying to the city's cultural history. During the Second World War, the British Mandate authorities moved the headquarters of the Near East Radio broadcast studios to Jaffa, the studios becoming a cultural hub in the city from 1941 to 1948. With the growing cultural importance of Jaffa came increasing cultural exchange and interconnection with the main cultural centers in the region such as Cairo and Beirut, which further established the city as a cultural minaret in the region ؟ lovingly dubbed the Bride of the Sea.

      "The story of Jaffa's Ongoing Nakba is the story of the transformation of this thriving modern urban center into a marginalized neighborhood suffering from poverty, discrimination, gentrification, crime and demolition since the initial wave of mass expulsion in 1948 to the present day."

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