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A Thousand Carnations for Palestinian Mothers
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New “Milking Cows” in the Service of Zion
Last weekend while on the way to Bavaria, the train passed a beautiful landscape with hills and meadows. And as the train made a stop at some small local station, I looked from the window and among other things I … Continue reading
In the Beginning Was the Word; that of a Palestinian
Since the Swedish journalist Donald Boström published his article on the Israeli organ theft crimes “Our Sons Plundered for their Organs”, many Palestinians and non-Palestinians have been writing on the topic, some confirming what Boström had written, some disgusted by … Continue reading
Palestinian Mothers: Homage to Steadfastness and Sacrifice
When the women came and told her to leave what she was doing and come and sit in front of the house with them, my grandmother knew what was to come. They sat outside and didn’t talk much. My uncle … Continue reading
The Picture-less Frame
As a child, I spend all school holidays in Dheisheh refugee camp. Neighbouring my grandparents’ house was a tiny UNRWA house: one of those tiny rooms built by the UNRWA for the Palestinians kicked out of their original homes and … Continue reading
Palestinian Villages Destroyed during the Nakba
61 Years of On-Going Nakba: the Old Still Live through Us and the Young Never Forgot
On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.” (1) Today, 61 years after the Nakba of 1948 and … Continue reading
Get up, stand up for Palestinian Rights on May Day and Every Day
Every morning, thousands of Palestinians say goodbye to their families and go to work. Teachers, doctors, farmers, labourers, fishermen, etc… They go to school to teach children, defying the Israeli tank standing outside the school. They go to their fields … Continue reading
Jerusalem: the heart, soul and home of Palestine
In 1929 Ben-Gurion said: “Jerusalem is not the same thing to the Arabs as it is to the Jews”. While he meant to say that Palestinians were not part of Jerusalem and are not attached to it as the Jews … Continue reading
They can’t take that away from me: “settlers” stealing Palestinian land from under our feet
Commemorating 60+ Years of the Systematic Murder of Palestinian Land. As I stood on the roof and watched Jerusalem stretch in front of me, with the sun reflecting on the golden Dome, I felt angry and felt how unfair the … Continue reading




