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Dear Susan Life is Not Fair
Dear Susan life is not fair, and has not been less unfair for Palestinians since the Zionist Movement started at the beginning of the century.
The situation in Gaza is deplorable worse than in the West Bank, and we know that everything that we people of the world wanted to happen for the good of Peace in the world, will only going to be possible if WE THE PEOPLE take the initiative and the lead in our world affairs.
The time has come when we must move the strings of power by the only way that is possible, Economic boycott of the diverse industries that finance Israel development and growth.
Hollywood Movie Industry, Christian Non Profit Organizations, and every product that it is in the BDS list.
The most important is keeping the pressure to our leaders to stop the economic help to Israel.
Raising awareness in our children about the prospects for peace in the world, educating them about the evil enterprise that is the War Complex Machine and they multi-billion dollars money deals they make with Israel.
The only way we will make our governments stop acting with impunity is showing them that we are united, that we are a uni-voice, a strong force growing every day.
That we can not stay silence with their crimes, that we are awake and aware of the situation in Palestine. That Israel is an entity that needs to disappear from the face of the Earth, because is causing great threat to World Peace.
We have sons and daughters, they are our future educated them.
The only way we will make our governments stop acting with impunity is showing them that we are united, that we are a uni-voice, a strong force growing every day.
That we can not stay silence any more nor be indifferent with their crimes.
That we are awake and aware of the situation in Palestine. That Israel is an entity that needs to disappear from the face of the Earth, because is causing great threat to World Peace.
We have sons and daughters, they are our future educated them on the issue of Peace.
Facebook is just one outlet to spread the truth, they are hundreds of this socials networks that we can use to change our world.
We can not just complain that nothing is happening, because is happening.
We are a force growing. Do not let us be just few raising our voices.
Be one peace activist also, reading is good because you are getting informed, then do your part, share the post to other walls, export them to others blogs, others channels, other spaces.
Myspace, youtube,meta cafe,tweeter,digg this,blogerspot,wordpress.com. I can search the net and find maybe thousands of this social networks.
Soon the change will become our reality. Do not be discouraged by the tragic events, we all take lessons and must move on, to our advantage for our behalf, in the name of a brighter future, that for some parts of the world is just Future. They live in the situation of “Be Or Not To Be” where the fight for their life is an everyday affairs.
We ALL are thinkers and able to share our concerns and give ideas of how to do better. How to participate in our political process and our world affairs. Do not let no one dictate you what is good for you, if what you are witnessing is just injustice and struggle.
We can not move on as a society if we permit this type of tragic events pass in front of our News, and Television Set and think and pretend that will never happen to us.
Take your future in your hands. If you do not do, others will do for you. Then you will have no face to complain or time to ACT.
ACT NOW for your future and for change for betterment of society.
Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh and Two other Palestinians Arrested today
Carol Anne Grayson – “This is a quick note that Israeli soldiers arrested Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh along with two other Palestinians early this afternoon local time May 15, 2011 as he was participating in a peaceful nonviolent civil disobedient march toward the Green Line in Al Walaja (one of the many Nakba events taken place today. Many media were there and his arrest was caught on tapes as he was just at the scene peacefully. He is currently being held at the Israeli military compound near Rachel’s Tomb. As this message is being written, I got a call from a friend who was still in Al-Walaja reporting that IDF is firing tear gas at the remaining protest crowd. Some protesters escape to village houses, but IDF soldiers followed into one house and arrested five more people (one Irish, one other international, and three Palestinians) from inside the house.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza, and Golan Heights, there were reports that dozens were wounded in many places, including more than 150 wounded at Qalandia checkpoint. Please complain to your government and demand them to stop supporting the brutal Israeli Apartheid regime. Please support and participate the Nakba events around the world today and double the effort of BDS on Apartheid Israel.”
As of now at local time Monday morning 2:00 a.m., Mazin is still being detained. His cell phone battery died as he called to communicate the names and countries of the seven internationals that were detained with him so that volunteers can get help calling their respective country’s embassy (Ireland, USA, Canada, Germany, Netherland.)
Later he borrowed someone else’s phone to advise that all the internationals would be released shortly, but not he and and other Palestinians. For them, he said, maybe days. Advocates are making connections with an attorney. Mazin sounded in good spirit and did not seem to be mistreated. Your calls to the U.S. State Department, Senators, Congresspersons, and foreign governments if you are non-US nationals should also help.
Israeli soldiers arrested Salem-News.com writer Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, a prominent professor who has instructed at both Duke and Yale, along with two other Palestinians early this afternoon local time as he was participating in a peaceful nonviolent civil disobedient march toward the Green Line in Al Walaja (one of the many Nakba events taken place today.)
STAY HUMAN CONVOY ENTER GAZA VIK 2 GAZA -STAY HUMAN
POSTED BY : Omar Karem
May 12, 2011 by
Stay Human convoy: “Let’s go to Gaza!” enters Gaza Vik2Gaza
Sammack Restaurant Hosted The Italian Solidarity Convoy
– The convoy will last six/seven days in order to give the possibility to participate for as many people as possible.
– It will take place between the 11th and 19th May.The exact dates will be agreed in few days with the people in Gaza that will host us.
So, lets start to get ready!
After leaving Cairo this morning at dawn, the 80 activists of the VIK2GAZA convoy have entered Gaza at 4pm after crossing five Egyptian check-points.
The convoy will be Staying in the Gaza strip to meet the Palestinian people who day by day are trying to resist the Israeli military occupation. The convoy will also join Gaza in the mourning of the Nakba, the day of the Palestinian catastrophe, which will take place between the 14 and the 15 of May.
A Second convoy, with over 100 buses, will leave from Tahir square in Cairo, the square that has become the symbol of recent popular revolutions in the Middle East , and will try to cross the Rafah pass on the 15 of May. This is a collective movement that wants to show full support to the fight of the Palestinian people for self-determination, to their everyday resistance against military occupation and to the right of all Palestinian refugees to come back to their land.
On the 21st April, a meeting regarding the discussions and reflections on the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni was held in Rome amongst different activists. From the gathering, the need to organize a convoy to Gaza through Egypt was decided.
Let’s start this process by sharing those points:
80 Peace Activists from Italian Solidarity Convoy Entered Gaza Today
– We want to be in Gaza on the 15th May which is the 1 month anniversary of Vittorio’s death. It will be also Nakba day, when thousands of young Palestinians, as already announced, will go back to the street all over the world to ask for the end of the occupation and also, a new unity and the end of the internal division within the Palestinian authorities.
We want to go to Gaza for different reasons:
– Although Vittorio was killed, it has to be clear that they can not stop the international support for the Palestinian people. Also thanks to him now the international support is much stronger and united against the occupation both of Gaza and of the West Bank.
– We want to give voice and continuity to the work that Vittorio, together with Palestinian men and women was bringing forward. Particularly the independent information that he managed to pass to the world from the besieged Gaza strip. For this reason, we will bring materials, tools and all we need to give life to a Media Center dedicated to Vittorio.
– The Freedom Flotilla will soon sail towards Gaza. Even though the two initiatives are organized separately, the two journeys, both via land and via sea, could reinforce each other to break the siege of Gaza.
Welcome To Gaza
Press release: in the name of Vittorio Arrigoni, the ‘Stay Human’ convoy has entered GazaVik2Gaza
The sun had not yet risen in Cairo, as the Stay Human convoy began to prepare the departure for Gaza. The journey about to be embarked upon was one filled with expectations and hope. The importance of the crossing the border at Rafah following the protests that brought down the Mubarak regime was on the minds of everyone, as well as the desire to remember Vittorio Arrigoni in the same place where he dedicated his life. The convoy will carry a message to the people of Palestine addressed to the entire world: Palestine is not alone, Vik’s dreams are also ours, solidarity towards those who struggle against oppression and exploitation knows no borders.
Ten checkpoints slow the journey, one in particular, blocks it for 2.5 hours in the Sinai desert, with the usual issues, the same from the previous days, about not being able to cross Rafah. The Italian embassy “concerned and ernest” had announced that the convoy would never enter Gaza, but obviously the facts have proved him wrong: we are here!
The Stay Human Convoy now follows in the footsteps of Vittorio, imprinted in the land of Gaza and underscored by the spontaneous affection shown by the Palestinians who welcome our arrival. The Stay Human Convoy breathes in the determination, courage and extreme humility of Vittorio, characteristics that we recognize in the unrelenting resistance of the Palestinian people. For many of us this is the first time crossing the border of the Gaza Strip, a victory for those who never surrendered, whether by land or by sea, to the categorical “Denied Entry”: nothing to see here, no one to meet.
Omar Karem journalist from Gaza Joins the Stay Human Convoy in a day of Jubilee
Once there we retrace Vittorio’s footsteps, in the places he frequented during his long stay in Gaza, where he met the friends that we now meet. To the tunes of Bella Ciao, Unadikom and Gazawi rap, images of Vittorio greet our arrival.
Ciao Vik, Free Palestine.
The Activists take a major role in the future of Gaza, the convoys that have managed to brake the siege will leave their footprints in the live of Gazan, the unknown soldiers as Vittorio Arrigoni and Rachel Corrie can be known, as they without planing their future they marked a different type of soldier for the liberation of Palestine.
I Love Palestine and not forget my Nakbaa 1948
Posted By :Omar Karem
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When is Nakba Day? Every day! My Palestinian friend answered to me….
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Marivel Guzman,US and Omar Karem, Gaza
What it is worse? Do live exiled in a foreign land, or to be prisoner in an exiled land
We can give excuses for history to have changed its curse, after all history was already written, the Holy Land was already there before Israel was created, La Terra Santa was a common name given by the Santa Church, the official Name, la Santa Sede, The Vatican that powerful state inside that Rome that ruled the life of Jews, Gentiles, believers and unbelievers since long before Jesus was even crucified. Then why the Santa Sede did not intervene in the protection of the holy shrine, the holy sepulcher, The Church of the Trinity those Holy places that were so important to preserve.
I asked my friend in Gaza, when is Nabka? and he replied Everyday is Nakba for us in Palestine. Those words are hunted words that live in every Palestinian inside the occupied land and in the exile, how can they forget that in May 15, 1948 somebody strange to Palestine land sat on a table and wrote a in a language foreign to Palestinians that their lands was theirs no more, that the graves of their grandparents now belongs to other people, those people that say they own the land by God will. Intelligent people, thinkers of this era, pagans, Atheist, Muslims, Buddhists, and every other human being that does not subscribe by mother lineage or convenience, or does not claim to be Jew, we all see the ugliness of that decision that with the power of a pen disposesed in an instance the life and identity of a whole Nation.
Nakba day is a day of mourning but not only on May 15 of every year, the mourning is a continuous feeling, every time one Palestinian is killed defending his life, his family, his land. Every time one Palestinian land get ravaged by the bulldozer, Every time a family is evicted from their home in East Jerusalem to make “home” for a “Jew family”. Nabka is an everyday struggle in the life of Palestinians even the ones in the exile, because for some reasons they are denied of the most of the basic rights specially in the Arabs countries. They claimed to served the rights of Palestinians in the exile, not allowing them claim citizenship or owing land. Israel and the Club of 5 seems not to worry for their continue struggles.
The ordinary citizens of the world just started taking note of the Palestinian Plight. Lets hope that Nakba will find soon a closed chapter and begin a new life for Palestinians. September is a day to mark in our calendar. By September more than 153 countries will have recognized Palestine as an independent State and the Palestinians Collision will draft a resolution to present to the UN to officially vote on the right of Palestinians to have their own State, globally and officially recognized. Lets Hope and lets keep the pressure word wide with Israel to stop dragging the inevitable, the situation is unsustainable for Israel. Very soon even the US have to stop its blatant and blind support for this pariah State that is Israel.
If England could not support its apartheid State in South Africa after the global boycotts and pressure of the people, so the US will have to recognize that can not and should not shove Israel in the throats of the people. Israel and their supporters are looking for a gloomy future, marching in suckles to the International Criminal Court of the Hague and very soon to respond in the Jerusalem Trials.
Cornerstone church “honor to israel” service disrupted!!!
san antonio community organizers stood in solidarity with palestine on may 15 2011 and disrupted Cornerstone Church’s “honor to israel” service performed by john hagee.
There is so much a sand castle can stand, the wind and the water of the ocean eventually will destroy it, Israel is seeing that they pushed to hard in the intelligent of the people, and they can not support the lie any longer. The pressure is mounting, the Arab Revolutions that have sweep the middle East should be a lesson for Israel and her supporters, and even to the puppets Arab leaders that the people have got enough. WE THE PEOPLE, are speaking a language of Unity, something that the leaders were not used to hear. The fold is down for great segments of society around the world, does not matter the culture we belong to. Peace, Justice are Universal Rights of all of us, the Citizens of Earth.
HAPPY MOTHER DAY MISS YOU SO MUCH MOTHER I NEED YOU ?
POST BY : OMAR KAREM
ست الحبايب يا حبيبة
يا أغلى من روحي ودمي
يا حنينة وكلك طيبة
يارب يخليكي يا أمي
ياست الحبايب يا حبيبة
.. يا حبيبه .. يا حبيبه .. وحبيبه ..
زمان .. زمان سهرتي وتعبتي
وشلتي من عمري ليالي
ولسه برضو دلوقتي بتحملي الهم بدالي
أنام وتسهري
وتباتي تفكري
وتصحي من الأدان وتيجي تشقري
يارب يخليكي يا أمي
ياست الحبايب يا حبيبة
يا حبيبة .. يا حبيبة .. وحبيبة ..
تعيشي ليَّا يا حبيبتي يا أمي
ويدوم لي رضاكي
ده انا روحي من روحك انتي
وعايشة من سر دعاكي
بتحسي بفرحتي
قبل الهنا بسنة
وتحسي بشكوتي
من قبل ما احس انا
يارب يخليكي يا أمي
ياست الحبايب ياحبيبة
يا حبيبة .. يا حبيبة .. وحبيبة ..
لو عشت طول عمري أوفي جمايلك الغالية عليَّا
أجيب منين عمر يكفي والاقي فين أغلى هدية
لو عشت طول عمري أوفي جمايلك الغالية عليَّا
أجيب منين عمر يكفي والاقي فين أغلى هدية
نور عيني ومهجتي
وحياتي ودنيتي
لو ترضي تقبليهم دول هما هديتي
يارب يخليكي يا أمي .. ياست الحبايب يا حبيبة
.. يا حبيبة .. يا حبيبة .. وحبيبة ..
International Community of Activists-Heros? No! Just Humans PM
Posted on May 05, 2011 by Marivel Guzman From US and Omar Karem from Gaza, Palestine
We wanted to make an article where we can present you some of the most outstanding Social and Peace Activist that we know of it, we do not want to write about Malcom X, Dr Martin Luther King, Mandela, Che or others that history have already given merit to their activities. We will give you some names that probably you recognize, because they are in your facebook friend list, or because you have the pleasure to know. We wanted to make one article but only the first Activist has taken more than few pages and his long career as an activist is so full of important information that we have to dedicate this article exclusively for him.
His name is Patrick MacManus he is the founder of Rebellion-Denmark an organization that Since its founding in early 2004, the Danish association Opror (‘Rebellion’) has sought to defy both national anti-terrorism legislation and the political paradigm underlying the so called ‘war on terror’. All under the principles of Rights to Speak, Dissident Voices and Right to choose.
The proscription of organisations through ‘terrorist lists’ can only contribute to the
marginalization of social and political movements, excluding them from an international
political and moral dialogue, which in itself is a necessary step towards a negotiated
political resolution of those conflicts of which they are a part.
Rebellion
Patrick MacManus Ordeal on 2010
Six-month suspended jail district court gave to the spokesman for the Association Rebellion, Patrick MacManus. He was convicted of “having attempted” to support the PFLP(Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine) and FARC (Revolutionary Arms Forces of Colombia) financially, but the relatively mild sentence must mean that parliament should go terror legislation through with comb, believes defender.
You read right “having attempted”, not crime was committed. This type of Judiciary behavior, “minority report style” has been used since the terrible events of 911. All the countries included in the Allies of the Willing as they called themselves, went in a rampage of arrests around the globe. Individuals and organizations that were non sympathetic of Israel and friendly of Palestine they all got their offices closed, their funds and assets frozen and many of the activists and head of these organizations or are in jail serving an invisible or invented crime that seems only to benefit Israel and their Apartheid System. Patrick MacManus is an old school activist.
You might recognize his face he is a facebook activist, some news have pop up in facebook of his disappearance, other comments says that he is sound and safe in Denmark, other says that he is being arrested by Israel Police. I m adding his facebook profile to follow up. Patrick MacManus
His blog was updated on April 2, 2011Israel: Laws of Hatred
The 65-year-old Patrick Mac Manus from Rebellion was yesterday in City Court sentenced to six months' imprisonment for financial support to terrorist movements. Photo: Casper Christoffersen / Scanpix
“My perception is that people are one people on earth, across all borders. It has always been important that we mutually support each other where we were now in a fight for better conditions. It is called international solidarity, and power have always considered armed resistance as terrorism. This also happened in Denmark during the occupation,” Patrick MacManus said.
“Personally I am glad that it’s me who gets cited, and not a youth of 20 years, where it could create problems for his career,” says 65-year-old MacManus.
On October 13, 2004 Patrick wrote an article on Israel Promise Withdrawal of her Settlements and Military personal from Gaza and seems that Patrick was very close to the events to developed in the then occupied Gaza, 7 years later we read his article and seems that he foretold the future of the now besieged Gaza.
“An Israeli withdrawal from Gaza can be compared to apartheid evacuation of Namibia in 1989. Even then pulled yourself back to its core area to its proper territory and its so-called homelands. A related model seems to hover on the Israeli political management. The Palestinian population refers to disadvantaged enclaves filled with misfortune, pain and desperation, left to an illusory and corrupt self-rule.
Increasing fragmentation through settlements, security zones and road systems makes a sustainable polity impossible here The Israeli policy may eventually cause the disaster which we most fear. State’s downfall in its current form. It undermines the two-state solution but the international community still sees as a realistic perspective.
Instead toner South Africa might again be A country where different people with painful story now united in a democratic and secular unitary state. Morally unacceptable violence will continue until the second road opens. Attacks against military and security installations and personnel against fortified settlements which the separation between civil and military organization is lifted. But also forms of resistance that is morally unacceptable when the militarily inferior party uses his own body as a weapon and brings death and mutilation with him. The weakening of the secular factions in the Palestinian resistance and prevalence of Islamic interpretations and motives are in themselves an expression of desperate conditions. Occupation and overwhelming force is the fundamental cause.
Depriving people the prospect of realistic change drives them into the religion’s illusions of deliverance through death, his own and others’. Heavy responsibility of the terrible reality that the Holocaust taboo represents has a critical approach to the Israeli state policy. This abuse of the victims must not impair the memory of them and on Europe’s responsibility for their terrible fate Nor should we forget Naqba, the ‘catastrophe’ that befell the Palestinian people. Also for these victims for their expulsion and their death is a heavy European responsibility to bear. Colonial Powers promises and broken promises and future extreme European nationalism underlies both the Israeli statehood and Palestinian catastrophe. The solution is perhaps a new democratic and multicultural inclusiveness, which breaks with the past and present disaster. A democratic and secular state, which is integrated in the political, cultural landscape as it has grudgingly been a part of. After the conflict comes reconciliation, even reluctantly, a precarious peace, who bear the future in him” Patrick MacNamus writing for Information A widely known Danish Online Newspaper.
Patrick MacManus is one of the Editor of the Book At the End of the Rainbow, it the story of the Africans Struggles during the Britain Apartheid System that incarcerated, tortured and killed so many Africans during the time the world was blind to their plight.
South African identity is a historical paradox. On the one hand, South African identities have
been transformed time after time. Settlers and natives have been reinvented as Christians and
heathens, who in turn have been recreated as civilized and barbarians, then as Europeans and
Bantu, and later again as whites, coloreds, and blacks, who were recently transformed into
God’s own rainbow people. This just to mention a few of the identities that South Africans
have contracted.1 At any given point in time, however, these identities were seen by most
people as rather definitive, and until the end of apartheid, the white identity was regarded as a
superior biological heritage and protected by laws that prohibited cross-racial breeding.2
Palestine is another Apartheid State with all the characteristics of “The End of the Rainbow”, but we have a different geography to play in here, the lands that the “Whites” occupied is small land and can not take more outsiders, those that came pretending to be the “Chosen Ones” came with different colors of the ones that left more than 2000 years ago.a
I like to make the mind to think, to analyze and sometimes I write some quotes, definitions, alternative meaning and sometimes riddles to tell that the story is not black and white, that the news are not as they are presented to you. When we have seen many sides of the history, then we can make an opinion, we can judge an action and even try to understand the motives, that is the harder part. Because in a story every side have their motives right or wrong depend in what side of the fence you are.
With Great Shock and Sorrow,Italian Activist ‘Vittorio Arrigoni’
POSTED BY :OmarKarem
You came to Gaza as no one did,
You helped the poor and the hungry you fed,
Women were killed and children were dead,
So, you swore to free the country you loved!
…And since you’ve gone,
We’ll complete what you’d begun,
We will go on,
We will put our hands together,
And free Palestine forever 🙂
A sketch by: Claudia Ferrara
~Restiamo Umani~ Stay Human
KAREM SAY: “I SAW YOU ONLY FEW TIMES, BUT YOU FIGHT AS PALESTINIAN AND LIVED OUR SUFFERING AND YOU LEAVE THE NICE WORLD AND CAME TO BE ONE OF GREAT PEOPLE, LIKE RACHEL CORRIE. WE WILL NOT FORGET YOU BROTHER VIK” OMAR KAREM
With great shock and sorrow,
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the murder of Italian activist, Vittorio Arrigoni. On Friday afternoon, 15 April 2011, Vittorio’s body was found in an building complex in the north of the Gaza Strip, following his murder at the hands of kidnappers. According to Hamas security forces, that are seen storming the building trying to free Vittorio from the hands of the “kidnappers”.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), and its entire staff, gravely condemns this crime, which targets our inherent human dignity, and the values and traditions of the lawful struggle for freedom and justice. It is this human struggle which connects Gazan’s – locked behind the closed door of the Gaza Strip – with the outside world, and inspires countless individuals to stand as human rights defenders.
PCHR calls upon the government in Gaza to prosecute the perpetrators. Furthermore, all necessary measures must be taken to secure the safety of international activists in the Gaza Strip, without limit their freedom to exercise their humanitarian duties.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, on Thursday evening, 14 April 2011, a group named “Group of the Companion Mohammed Bin Maslamah” announced the kidnapping of the Italian journalist, Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, a prominent member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and a human rights defender. In a video posted on the Youtube website, the group demanded the release of detained members of the group, affiliates of the so-called “Salafist Jihadist Group”. The kidnappers threatened to kill Arrigoni if the government in Gaza did not meet their demands within 30 hours.
In a grave development, contrary to fundamental values shared by all Palestinians, the group carried out their threat. On Friday afternoon, 15 April 2011, security forces of Hamas found the body of Arrigoni in a house located in the ‘Amer project area, west of al-Karamah building in the west of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip. In his testimony, a PCHR staff-member reported signs of beating on the victim’s face, signs of handcuffs on his hands, and signs of strangulation around his neck.
The Ministry of Interior in Gaza issued a press release on Friday, condemning this heinous crime. It declared the arrest of two members of the group and the continued search for others.
Arrigoni had worked in Gaza since 2008, when he arrived on board the “Free Gaza” flotilla, organized to break the closure imposed on the Gaza Strip. He devoted himself to the defense of Palestinians’ rights, and participated in a number of activities against the closure, against violations committed by Israeli Forces against Palestinian civilians, particularly fishermen, and against the Israeli decision to impose a ‘buffer zone’ in the Gaza Strip. He was arrested by Israel forces on18 November 2008, while he was accompanying a number of fishermen off the shores of Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip. However, he returned to Gaza a few months later via Rafah International Crossing. Arrigoni was also in the West Bank for a few years before coming to Gaza. He has been known for his activity with the International Solidarity Movement.
PCHR reiterates its condemnation of this heinous crime, and:
1. Calls upon the government in Gaza to conduct an effective and prompt investigation to identify the circumstances of the crime, prosecute the perpetrators, and publish the investigations’ results;
2. Appreciates the role played by the International Solidarity Movement and other human rights defenders in the occupied Palestinian territory;
3. Calls upon the international community, political powers and Palestinian people to condemn this crime and organize peaceful activities against it.
The events have not been clear since the beginning, there is clouds on the way the situation was managed by the security forces of Gaza. The whole world was expecting the release of Vittorio Arrigoni alive, there were signs that he will be safe and sound. Some tweeters were circulating about some journalist in Gaza lending themselves as a shields to secure the safety of Vik. By 1:30 PM PST the tweets were suggesting that security forces declined the offer of help of the journalists and they (security forces) will be trying to free Vittorio from the hands of the “kidnappers”.
The video by aljazeera showing the storming of the building where Vik was found dead shows no time. Will be very important to shed light to Vik murders to put time on that video. And the security forces of Gaza need to be clear in the way the situation was handle since the knowledge of the kidnap.
We know that this horrendous crime is the exception and not the norm in Gaza Strip, and Palestinians and the activists community assure the world that we wont stop our activities in Palestine. The goal is liberate Palestine altogether. No fundamental groups, radical minds or threats from Israel will deter us from continue the activities inside and outside Palestine to stop this inhumane Occupation.
Paris court convicts Israeli doctor of slander
Posted On April 30, 2011 by Omar Karem
Why Israel Does Not Care For Any Country And The “UNITED NATIONS”?
IM PALESTINAIN AND IM SUFFERING
IM SCARE TO GO TO THE BEACH, ISRAEL DOES NOT CARE FOR THE KIDS, OLD PEOPLE OR HUMANS.
Knesset member Ahmad Tibi is calling on Israeli authorities to punish a doctor convicted of slandering the father of Mohammad Ad-Durra by a French court Friday.
In 2000, the television station France 2 reported that Israeli soldiers shot dead Mohammad Ad-Durra, 12, in Gaza City. The killing was filmed by French reporters and the channel broadcast footage of the incident, in which Ad-Durra’s father Jamal was also shot and injured as he tried to take cover with his son.
In an interview to a French Jewish publication in 2008, Israeli doctor Yehuda David claimed Jamal Ad-Durra’s injuries stemmed from a previous accident. He had operated on Ad-Durra in 1994.
Ad-Durra sued David and the publication for slander.
A Paris court on Friday convicted the doctor, a reporter and the editor of Jewish News Weekly, of defaming Jamal Ad-Durra. The three were fined 1,000 euros each and ordered to pay 5,000 euros in damages.
MK Ahmad Tibi urged the Israeli Medical Association and the Ministry of Health to prosecute the doctor, noting that misusing and distorting confidential medical files is a criminal offense.
David has previously claimed that the video footage of Mohammad’s killing was fabricated, and that the boy was killed by Palestinian fire.
In 2000, the Israeli army conducted an internal investigation and admitted responsibility for the killing but in 2007 the Israeli government officially denied involvement.
Ashama News brings you what others are shy to show
Palestine State! What does it take to become State? A Pen! and Role of the United Nations
Posted April 22, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
On May 14, 1948 the The Zionist Movement Group declared the establishment of the state of Israel. The next day, Britain renounced its mandate over Palestine AND the US recognized the state of Israel. The Soviet Union followed suit along with DOZENS of other countries. A year later in May 1949…Israel became a member of the UN.
In 1974, the UN General Assembly invited Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, to address the General Assembly during the annual debate on Palestine. Arafat appeared before the UN in fatigue uniform, with his pistol showing. This period, following the Yom Kippur war, marked the ascendancy of the Palestinian in the UN for many years, and culminated in the Zionism is Racism resolution in 1975. On November 22, the UN General Assembly passed two resolutions 3326 and 3327, that recognized the cause of Palestinian self-determination and the status of the PLO as representing the Palestinian people, and gave the PLO observer status at the UN.
Further recognizes the right of the Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations
By United Nations Standards this Statement means that Palestine has the right to protect and defend her Land and her citizens by ALL MEANS, so Palestine has done exactly why the United Nations accorded in 1974, except that they did not allow Palestine to arm herself and with this protect the Land and her Citizens, on the other hand since Israel become state, UN by unanimous vote or by omission they had allowed Israel to arm herself even with Nuclear Weapons. So what is wrong with this picture.
Nothing did change for the regular Palestinians, after 1974 after the triumphantly entrance of Yassef Arafat to the United Nations, little did change for the Palestinians in the exile, for the Palestinians that lost their homes, lands and lives. So “Palestinian people to regain its rights by all means” was left to become just print in a paper. After that memorial day, that it is celebrated by ritualistic method as only human can do, has pass to history as another day to “Celebrate”, but what the United Nations has done to give the Palestinians their rights to defend what was theirs in the first place? Wait, let’s back up a few years and be clear on one thing very important because the idea that there was no Palestine is really engrave in the New Comers from Europe with “Ancestral Ties to their Home Land” they learn that there was no Palestine. Well if we follow official documents lets analyze one of the most important documents that exist in the annals of “Jew and Zionist” history; The Balfour Declaration, which is a letter send from Arthur James Lord Balfour to Lord Rothschild. The following letter is posted in the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Office
November 2nd, 1917Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in PALESTINE of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in PALESTINE, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.
Yours sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour
So by 1917 the British Crown is officially stating that there is PALESTINE, well it was not independent but so were not 75 % of the world, England, France, Russia, US there were in a frenzy race colonizing somebody else lands around the world, and because the greed of these countries did not make the lands they occupied less of real, only in a paper. But a signed paper does not make a Nation, the people of the land make the Nation.
By the end of the WWI we have the monopoly of the world in few hands, and Palestine was not the exception. It happens that peaceful people dedicated to tender the land and their cattle do not hold colonizer ideas, they are happy with “Their Land” and their people. So their beautiful land was occupied by England and the apologetic idea that the Zionist gives to the new generations as a excuse to take the Land of Palestine if saying that before England Mandate of Palestine, the Turks were occupying Palestine, and before that the Ottoman Empire was occupying Palestine, and before that and all the way to 700 BC somebody else was occupying Palestine, but every time was Palestine only the New Foreigners that came with arms and greed were different, but the people was the same, the land was the same.
The world is a mess and Britain and France formed what it was called the League of Nations; The League of Nation’s task was simple – to ensure that war never broke out again, but did not work and we saw WWII and the birth of United Nations, and again who formed this International Body? The Bullies of the world, the greedy countries that by this time have amazed huge military and economic power, I like to called the Club of 5, because they move with the efficacy of an sport club, their member follow the rules of the membership, if they don’t they pay with Fines(Sanctions) or expulsion, well in reality no one is allowed to abandon the club but their member are punish if they do not follow the rules.
If we make an assessment of the role of United Nations since its inception in the world affairs, they have conducted countless operations in the world including WARS:
UN peacekeeping should not be confused with other forms of multinational military intervention, including “enforcement” actions. On several occasions, the Security Council has authorized Member States to use “all necessary means”—including force—to deal with armed conflict or threats to PEACE Acting with such authorization, Member States formed military coalitions in the Korean conflict in 1950 and, in the 1990s, in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. Multinational operations were deployed in addition to United Nations operations in Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1997, the Council authorized action by a “coalition of the willing” to deal with the situation in Albania. It also authorized deployment of a multinational peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, which in March 1998 was replaced by the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA).The recent-most mandate UN peacekeeping operation was the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL), which was authorized by the Council in Juy 1998.
What is the scope of UN peacekeeping?
Since 1948, there have been 49 United Nations peacekeeping operations. 36 peacekeeping operations were created by the Security Council in the years between 1988 and 1998. There are currently 17 under way involving 14,453 peacekeepers at the end of August 1998. Over 750,000 military and civilian police personnel and thousands of other civilians have served in UN peacekeeping operations; 1,581 have died while serving in these missions up to the 31 August 1998.
All these “Peace Keeping Operations” without count the last 13 years that we can say have been the bloodiest of the wars and conflicts. How many people have died in Wars and Conflicts since the formation of the United Nations. Have they done any Peace Keeping Operations in Palestine since it was occupied by the Newly State of Israel? not in the last 63 years. There were calls from Yassef Arafat the former head of PLO to bring Blue Helmets to Palestine to oversee the situation, to protect Palestinians..but the United Nations never approved such Peace Keeping Operation in Palestine.
Palestine is being recognized as a state by 53 nations in the world, what does it means for Palestinians? Will Israel will stop the incursions in Gaza?
Will stop the house demolitions?
Will the Wall came down? ..Really! if the United Nations put for a vote the resolution to created Palestine State, well in a paper…Will the conditions will better up in Palestine?
What about the Gaza Siege?
What about the Settlers will they go back to Europe? or at least will they be absorbed by Israel?
Will be very hard for Israel, because The settlers are only disposable subjects for Israel’s interest, at least the ones inside West Bank, will Israel really care for them? or they are use as a log for the Fire?
Are the Black Jews that came from Ethiopia are really considered equals with the white blue eye Israelis in Tel Avid? There are so many questions that will be answer in due time.
For now let me ask Again: What will it take for Palestine to become State and be recognized by the supporters of Israel? Will the US will give Loans Guarantees to Palestine, what about weapons? after all United States is a consumer society that is always looking for ways to expand their economic reach to the world. Will Russia, Germany, Pakistan and other will line up to sell weapon legally to Palestine? It is only normal right, that after Palestine be recognized, she will have access to modern weaponry like Israel has, then will be even field. What a disaster for Israel that will be, fighting in an equal war with equal weapons. Maybe if Palestine is recognized as a state, and they are able to adquire arms legally in the War Market, then Palestinians will not be seen as terrorists with home made rockets and sling shots..then the News can rightly report War between two countries, soldiers against soldiers.
I think that will be the negative side of Palestinians becoming state, more deaths..Will be a consolation for Palestinians, for the world that at least now there is an even field, even thought Israel will have the upper hand because they are armed to the teeth from decades ago.
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
Andrew B. Law
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war;
no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably,
no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization.
We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner
Gaza shores is been found to have rich mantle of natural gas and oil, will British Petroleum will invest in Gaza, Palestine in behalf of the Palestinians, I mean after Palestine be accepted in the UN?
Being a recognized state will have some type of benefits, right? Well not really…..
Mexico is a signatory of the United Nations club and its populations have been terrorized by the government and the cartels, for years Mexico’s indigenous people have lived under the poverty level, since 1994 they have been slowly exterminated. Does it make any difference that Mexico was accepted by the UN in 1945, and nothing have changed in Mexico. It is hard to have United States as a Northern Neighbor. Mexican leaders had been puppets of the interest of United States. Sad ..but truth…Since Mexico is one of the top oil producers in the world it makes it a target of the bullies.
What about PANAMA?(Please Watch) It was a republic and well recognized by the UN..and in 1989, the greatest army in the world, under the cloud of the darkness AND for 3 days attacked Panama and killed more than 4,000 innocent people. What the United Nations did?
What are the benefits to be a recognized, independent State? You will think that some kind, and Palestinians are eager to know what is to be a State, rightly recognized by the world and “ITS LEGAL REPRESENTATIVE”, …WELL NOT REALLY!….United Nations body is mostly seen as the stamper of wars, ..sure it has its international bodies that play the Samaritan role, but overall its role is worse than a Death Squat.
Do not go too far, start the trail of blood from the most recent “Peace Operations” LYBIA, it is a good example and follow the blood. And while there, put your nose on the ground and smell the Black Gold, as it plays a role in the “Peace Keeping Operations of the UN Club”
Kosovo, Yogoslavia, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Argentina, Haiti, Chile..I can go on and on and name the 192 countries that belong to the UN and everyone of them can tell you a story. Did the UN got together to protect their citizens? to avert a War?…No for the contrary the wars that we have seen in our modern history, they have been planned by the Club of the UN. So What difference will make for Palestine when all the 192 countries that formed the UN recognize her? will it make a difference in their life? What does it take anyway to be State? A PEN?.or it is better to be a great Nation, a united Nation recognized by the citizens of the World. Will We the People can make a difference? Can we keep raising our voices until is a Roar of great magnitude that the Leaders will take notice? Can we make a difference with the BDS Campaign? Can we bend the will of the leaders and make them do the right thing? We only can go as far as we push!
Vittorio Arrigoni Italy State Funeral! Symbolic Funeral in Gaza and Ramallah
Posted on April 24, 2011 by Omar Karem
Vik as he was known by friends in Gaza, was a respectable journalist, blogger, victim and witness of Israel Inhumane Siege. His everyday accounts of the murders, destruction and humanitarian crisis that Gazan are living were everyday recounted in his radio guerrilla blog, he suffered none the less with all Gaza population as he wrote in his Gaza; Stay Human book, Report and memoirs.
Today the world is mourning again the loss of Vik, as Italy offered a State Funeral as a tribute to his humanitarian and journalistic career.
His body was put to rest in Rome, while in Palestine they followed Vittorio throughout video conference and Satellite Channels giving their farewell for last time to his body. They sent their condolences to Vittorio’s Family in an unprecedented show of solidarity. The young and the old in Palestine condemned the crime of Vik, and send a message to the world that Palestinians are peaceful people and they do not condone violence.
Dozens of Gazan raised Palestinians and Italians flags in Vik former residence, and in an emotive ceremony poetry was read, singing and drawing remembering Vittorio. Vittorio was singing with us here in Gaza, because he never died, now there are thousands of Vittorios. We can not forget that he was part of our community, he was part of Gaza.
The authorities in Ramallah and in Gaza join the Symbolic Funeral giving Vittorio a Palestinian State Funeral Touch. After all seems that he united the two parts. Gaza Hamas and West Bank Fatah forgot their differences and unite with one voice to make a tribute to this man that left his home land and embraced Palestine as his and fought with his pen, and suffered in equal form the Siege of Gaza. He will be very proud to see that today were no divisions in Palestine all it was; Palestine One Nation saying a Farewell to a great humanitarian,Compassionate and beautiful soul that we Gazan had the privilege and honor to had shared our lives and struggles .
Vittorio Arrigoni Will To The World-For The Reader: a warning and instructions for use
Posted On April 17, 2011 Marivel Guzman
‘Stay human’ is the motto with which I sign off my pieces
for II Manifesto and for the entries on my blog. It’s an
Invitation, or, better still, a prompt, to desist for the
commission of criminal acts and to reaffirm and take
possession of the original purposes of humankind instead.
Once boundaries, flags, barriers, latitudes and ethono-
religious differences have been abolished, what breaks
onto the scenario stripped of the impulse
to preserve one’s own kin at the expense of others. Mine
is an invitation to remember our belong to a sole
community of living beings: the human family.
Gaza: Stay Human is now also a book. Please find
within the three-week story of a massacre, written to the
best of my ability, more often than not in very precarious
conditions, often scribbling about the inferno all around
me in a tattered notebook while crouched in an ambulance
screaming down the street. Or frantically tapping away
at the keyboard of any available computer I could find,
often inside a building shaking like a crazed pendulum
as explosions went off all around. I must warn you that
leafing through this book could prove dangerous. These
are harmful pages, blood-stained, imbued with white
phosphorous, and as sharp as bomb shrapnel. If read within
the quiet of a bedroom, your walls will shake from our
cries of terror. I feel concerned for the walls of your hearts,
which I recognize have not become soundproofed to
pain.
Please store this volume somewhere safe, within the
reach of the young, so that they may immediately learn of
a world not so far away from them, where indifference and
racism tears their peers to little bits as if they were mere
rag dolls. This way they may be inoculated against racism
from an early age, against any epidemic of violence towards
whoever is different, or against neutrality when faced with
injustice. Gaza; Stay human aims to float beyond other
books written about, in and around Palestine thanks to
the creative fire that has begotten it: the keen will of this
author to involve, enlighten and heighten the reader’s
awareness of what atrocious inhumanities unfolded during
those 22 days of a massacre. This is my small contribution
towards preventing similar massacres from ever taking
place in future. Giving the dead some justice and
safeguarding tomorrow’s mortally wounded.
Please help yourself to a ticket for a tour of hell that
even the poet Dante Alighieri could not have conceived
of when waking up from his pillow, full of nightmares. I
entertain the hope of having been a good guide throughout
to this hell, like Dante’s Charon, the ferryman of Hades,
of having been as faithful and as humane as possible in
my narration. Standing in the rubble of a freshly-bombed
building or in the ward of a Gaza hospital, I’m aware that
it was sometimes difficult to recognize human features
in what was once a face, now mutated, reduced to a
pulp by devastating weaponry that is mostly banned by
all international conventions. My account strives for the
greatest possible objectivity. As it happens, I was myself an
object, or target, of the Israel army and also received death
threats from a group of neo-Nazis connected with some
settler groups. For whomsoever is still in doubt, months
after the massacre, my account and the details recorded
underneath a storm of bombs have been backed up by
all the most reliable human rights organizations, whether
governmental or otherwise, as well as by Israeli soldier
themselves, who have recently started to confess the
crimes they have committed. In time, Gaza: Stay human
will become increasingly more like an historic document
rather than being a plain narrative from hell.
If truth is the first victim of war, it is then Israel’s absolute
priority to assassinate it, before, during and after the
conflict. Our duty as activists, and more generally as human
beings, is to document and tell the truth for the sake of
freedom and justice, and then bring it to the table of world
public opinion, and then serve it as a meal, the
difficult to digest the better.
For tomorrow, so as to stay human
The port (or its rubble), Vittorio Arrigoni
Gaza City
15th July 2009
Slingshots vs. White Phosphorous Bombs-“Smash a box of kitten” hear the Roar of the World
Posted on April 16, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
“Take some kittens, some tender little moggies in a box”, said Jamal, a surgeon at Al-Shifa, Gaza’s main hospital, while a nurse actually placed a couple of bloodstained cardboard boxes in front of us. “Seal it up, then jump on it with all your weight and might, until you feel their little bones crushing, and you hear the last muffled little mew”. I stared at the boxes in astonishment, and the doctor continued: “Try to image what would happen after such images were circulated> The righteous outrage of public opinion, the complaints of the animal rights organizations…” The doctors went on in this vein, and I was unable to take my eyes of the boxes at our feet. “Israel trapped hundreds of civilians inside a school as as if in a box, including many children, and then crushed them with all the might of its bombs. What were the world’s reactions?
Almost nothing. We would have been better off as animals rather than Palestinians, we would have been better protected”.
At this point the doctor leans towards one of the boxes, and takes its lid off in front of me. Inside it are the amputated limbs, legs and arms, some from the knee down, others with the entire femur attached, from amputees injured at the Al-Fakhura United Nations school in Jabalia, which resulted in more than 50 casualties.
Pretending to be taking an urgent call, I took my leave of Jamal, actually rushing to the bathroom to throw up. A little earlier I’d been involved in a conversation with Dr. Abdel, an ophthalmologist, regarding the rumors that the Israeli Army had been showering us with non-conventional weapons, forbidden by the Geneva Convention, such as cluster bombs and white phosphorous. The very same that the Israel Army used during the last Lebanese war, as well as the US Air Force in Falluja, in violation of International norms. An Excerpt from Vittorio Arrigoni from his book Gaza Stay Human.
4 workers were killed last night and because of the collapse of a tunnel dug by Palestinians in the Rafah border. Through the tunnel pass all the necessary goods that have enable the survival of the population of Gaza strangled by four years by criminal Israeli siege. Can enter tunnels in the Gaza Strip’s main assets such as food, cement, livestock.
Even the hospitals in The Gaza Strip from the black market will cater for the tunnel.
Since the beginning of the siege at more than 300 Palestinians have died at work in the ground to allow a population of nearly 2 million people to feed themselves.
It ‘an invisible war for survival.
The names of past martyrs: Abdel Halim and his brother Samir Abd Al-Rahman Alhqra, 22s years and 38 years, Haitham Mostafa Mansour, 20, and Abdel-Rahman Muhaisin 28 years.
Remain Human
Vik from Gaza City
April 13, 2011
Silvio Berlusconi today: “We will try to prevent the departure of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza.”
According to Israeli radio reports second Berlusconi flotilla’s mission would not work in support of peace in the region.
Proposing negotiations to be held in Sicily,(in the estates of Vittorio Mangano?), The premier “bunga bunga” reminded once again that Israel is the only Middle Eastern country friendly to the West, and should become part of European Union.
Berlusconi is pushing for the accession of Israel to the European Union, while Italy will kick in soon.
Please tell me which is the usual joke…
Stay Human
Vik from Gaza City
Abril 13, 2011
All the reports from Vittorio Arrigoni from Gaza City in Guerrilla Radio Guerrilla Information imprisonment. Corruption of the media, the bigotry of the middle classes, the unforgivable slumber of civic consciousness. The longing for truth before every longing, the abrasive complaint to the dissolution of any preconceived solution, infanticide of all certainty induced.The black powder of coercion within the nostrils of a crisis of rejection. The binge of Naked Lunch, raw bitter enough not to be digested.
Vittorio Arrigoni, 8th January 2009: “My toothpaste, toothbrush, razors and shaving foam. The clothes I’m wearing, the cough medicine I’m using to get rid of a persistent cough, the cigarettes I bought for Ahmed, and some tobacco for my arghile. My cell phone, the laptop onto which I compulsively type eyewitness accounts from the hell surrounding me. All that’s needed for a modest, yet dignified, existence in Gaza comes from Egypt, and arrives onto the shop shelves through the tunnels. These are the same tunnels the the Israeli F16s haven’t stopped bombing heavily in the last 12 hours, destroying thousands of Rafah houses near the border.
“As sit here writing this, there are 821 Palestinians dead. 93 being women, 235 children. Twelve Paramedics were killed while fulfilling their duty and three journalist died with cameras hanging round their necks. A good 3,350 are among the injured, with more than half being under 18 years ofe age. According to the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights bases in Jabalia, renowned for its reliability they make up 85 % of the Palestinian civilian casualties massacred in the last two weeks. The death toll on the Israeli side has thankfully remained at four.” Vittorio Arrigoni from Gaza City, 10th January 2009, Total Destruction Work in Progress Excerpt from Gaza Stay Human.
I read Vik mention “The death toll on the Israeli side has thankfully remained at four.” I can tell what was in his mind, as we have seen since Israel makes sure there is always 4 to 1 deaths of Palestinians, but this time in Gaza Massacre was over their normal ratio.B’tselem– The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was established in 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
On 27 December 2008, the first day of the operation, the army bombed the main police
headquarters in Gaza City, killing 42 police cadets who were standing in formation. The same
day, Israel also bombed some 18 police stations in the Gaza Strip. In total, 248 police officers
were killed that day.
Israeli officials stated, in interviews with the media and in official announcements, that
attacks on the police were justified because police officers would in the future take part in
hostilities against Israel, and that every object belonging to Hamas was a legitimate target,
regardless of the actions of the persons attacked.
With so many eyewitness on the Ground regarding Gaza Massacre 2009, voices like Vittorio Arrigoni that did not stop reporting from Gaza since 2009, so why will UN will need the voice of a men than never set foot in Gaza, Richard Goldstone?
The Goldstone report was the first evidence in what has since become a pattern – the failure of the Israeli leadership to register diplomatic achievements following the use of military power. Israel had no troubles achieving its victory in Gaza. One could argue – as many Israelis do – that operation Cast Lead helped deter the Hamas from launching more missiles on Israeli towns. Yet it also made Israel more isolated than ever in the world. The military operation boosted the BDS movement, mobilized public opinion in support of the Palestinians, and led to the Gaza-bound flotilla last spring, which resulted in a partial lifting of the blockade on the Strip.
Most people who criticize the Goldstone report in the US have never been to Gaza, not even before Cast Lead. But Congressman Brian Baird from the state of Washington (D) visited the strip after the Israeli offensive, and these are the wise and sensitive words he had for his fellow legislators, just before an overwhelming majority of them (344-36) backed a resolution calling “the President and Secretary of State to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration of the [Goldstone] Report“:
Page 52 of Vittorio Arrigoni Book Gaza Stay Human:
“Visiting the wards of Al-Shifa Hospital, crowed with injured patients awaiting treatment, you can bump into a doctor who doesn’t not look very arab. Mads Gilbert is a Norwegian doctor from the NGO Norwac. Gilbert, an anaesthetist, confirms our suspicion regarding the use of forbidden weapons by Israel on Gaza’s civilians: “Many injured arrive with extreme amputations, with both their legs reduced to a pulp, which I suspect is an effect of DIME weapons this is happening while Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, reports that ‘extremely serious violations possibly constituting war crimes’ are taking place”
DIME (Dense Inert Metal Explosive) Bomb is an innovative explosive made with a warhead of carbon and epoxy resin integrated with steel and tungsten. This explosive was designed for urban guerrilla warfare, and was made to strike specific targets and cause a much damage as possible.
Gaza: Stay Human is an authoritative and deeply moving eyewitness account of the terrible 22 day Israeli offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip in 2008-09. Vittorio Arrigoni, a volunteer with the pacifist International Solidarity Movement, served as a human shield while working with the Palestinians Red Crescent ambulances, during the offensive. As a freelance journalist with the Italian daily II Manifesto, Arrigoni’s daily dispatches, written between bombing raids and patchy Internet access, ended with the plea, ‘Stay Human’, which became the motto of anti-Israel peace protest in his native Italy. The English translation is updated to include Arrigoni’s new dispatches on the difficult situation in Gaza after Operation ‘Cast Lead’ and features a preface by the renowned Israeli historian and human rights activist, Ilan Pappe
-Ilan Pappe, Professor of History, University of Exeter. Stay Human ISBN 978-1-84774-019-9
When it comes to human compassion and lending a hand to the voiceless I think Vittorio Arrigoni showed to the world how to do it, even thought his presence in Gaza as freelance journalist and International Solidarity Movement eyewitness was mostly ignored by the world, now his legacy will be known and his work will speaks for itself. All the accounts of the crimes committed by Israel inside the Gaza strip since September 2008 when he arrived in The Gaza Flotilla are being read around the world since he was murdered. If we have a purpose to fulfill in this world, I think Vittorio is fulfilling his, even after his death his accounts are been told and spread as he will never imagine it will. All the work that he did for Gaza, all the moments of anger that he went through seeing how the media was ignoring Gaza Plight, now every bit of information he transmitted on the Internet, every line that he wrote is being distributed, only fate could have given his sacrifice the color that have tainted his memory. His memory stays in Gaza and the Israel crimes will be vastly known all because of his death. It is not that I m happy for his departure, for the ones that have say that his death does not serve any purpose, All wrong on that. His death is mourned and we all sad, but Israel can not stop Vittorio Arrigoni any more, Israel crimes are imprinted in a Book that is more real than The Goldstone Report.
Gaza Stay Human with its 130 pages tell the story of a population being slaughter in front of the cameras, in front of the world that stays silence, might this book be the Post Mortum Witness that the world needed to open their eyes.
As I write this article April 17, 2011 Israel already had strike Gaza again, but now there are more Vittorio that are telling the tale. Thousands of facebook profiles are telling you Gaza and Vittorio Arrigoni Story, thousands of Vittorios are dispersing the truth, The Real Gaza Story..Catch a glimpse and do your deed. Stay Human
RIP Vittorio Arrigoni your memory will live forever in Gaza.
At the end no one can make you believe whats is not there, you are the Opinion Makers, Where The Truth Is the News and You the readers are the Opinion Makers always.
“Israel Wall” Released Throughout Gaza
Posted on April 14, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Mr. Pity are proud to announce that copies of our ‘Israeli Wall’ album have been sent to sincere Palestinians and have been granted complete authority to burn unlimited copies of the CD for free distribution throughout Gaza. Despite heavy censorship, this album will promote true Freedom to the Palestinians.
Every Musician, singer, poet, and writer have a bond with their art, and with the people they deliver their art and message. When they find that their art is inspirational, entertaining but also appreciated they have double satisfaction. More and more we seen Musicians and singers lending their art to disseminate the message of Truth, Justice and peace.
It is an honor to present you Mr. Pity a rock band that despite the risks of being openly Palestinian supporters, they Dare the world. We all know the risk to being in the Public Eye of the Zionist Media, you can be,”Ignored”, “Forgotten”, and some times destroyed, as has happened to many Public Figures. We just saw the classical example of Helen Thomas after more than 50 years of impeccable careers being destroyed at the end by telling The Truth of the Matter.
I dare you to ignored the Zionist Media and support the artists that give themselves to the Cause of Truth, Justice and Peace.
They as a musicians, need the support of the Public listening their music, but also buying their material, because unfortunately in this Materialistic World that we still live, money still the Wheel that Moves the World. For the friends that do not know them, I bring you a video clip for you to get to know this band and support them. This special album was
publicly and freely released for Gaza.
Genre -Hard Rock / Metal
Members-Harry Hamed Vocals, Yod Lead Guitar, Bryan Guitar, Gun Bass,Sticks Drums.
Hometown-Morocco / Bangkok
Record Label-Self Release
About :
No Sleep Until We Rock In Jerusalem.. Our Album is Available for download from Amazon.com
For those of you who wish to buy the hard copy please contact us direct.
Biography
Mr. Pity are a Revolutionary Rock band the brain child of Hamed aka Harry Pity, born in Morocco, raised in the UK and currently based in Thailand since 2005.
Mr. Pity do not, and never will, advocate violence but rather consider their weapons of war to be the very instruments they play and record. Mr. Pity sincerely hope that people across the world enjoy their unique ‘brand’ of music, described by some as being a rich combination of of Metal and Rock.
It is Mr. Pity’s desire and Great Wish that all peoples of the world will ultimately unite and, once and for all, put a True End to war and conflict with all it’s destructive manifestations ultimately being eradicated from the conscious memory of humanity as a whole.
Mr. Pity are currently working on their second Studio Album titled “5 Wire” – so stay in touch and enjoy the Rock!
Peace to You from Mr. Pity, Fans and Crew.
“No Sleep Till We Rock In Jerusalem” (read less)
Mr. Pity are a Revolutionary Rock band the brain child of Hamed aka Harry Pity, born in Morocco, raised in the UK and currently based in Thailand since 2005.
Mr. Pity’s debut album, Israeli Wall, is Dedicated to Peace and Justice. The album was recorded and Mixed at Morocco studio in Thailand and mastered in the UK.
“Trumpets brought down the walls of Jericho, time has come for Guitars to bring down the Israeli Wall”
Mr. Pity’s vision is to contribute their gifts and resources into helping… (read more)
Current Location-Thailand
General Manager-Harry Hamed
Booking Agent-Harry Hamed / Contact Amira Ch. for all Arab countries incl France.
Press Contact-mr.pity@hotmail.com /amira8210@yahoo.fr
Artists We Also Like-Maiden, Priest…etc..
Influences-80’s Metal
Band Interests-Peace And Justice, Anti-Zionists
Israel Wants to Take Hamas Out-Israel Motives?
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Originally Posted BY OMAR KAREM
The news below is all across the internet just in google 1030 News Online Outlets are distributing it. In Yahoo 2080 News Online Outlets are distributing it.
Do you wonder why? Can this be a psychological campaign to sent to the leaders of the world, and to the compassionate people of the world to push for a change of government in Gaza. Thinking that with this Israel will stop the slaughter in Gaza?. Forget about that, Israel is not looking for peace, never had.
There is always an excuse for killing of civilians, an excuse for target assassinations, an excuse for extrajudicial detentions, an excuse to bombing civilian structures, an excuse to bomb hospitals, schools, mosques, ambulances, and civilian cars. Always an excuse and every time there will be a leader from the UN Club to say. “Israel has the right to Defend itself”…
Next time that you read the “NEWS” please search and research the source, the writer the “Between the Lines” message.
The Propaganda machine is the best weapon Israel has to continue with her killings of Innocent. They are cleaning the population of Palestine, they are driving their inhabitants to move out, they are doing all in their bloody hands to rid Palestine of Palestinians.
The Numbers of births of Israelis are against Israel plans, and the Number of births of Palestinians are the worse contra weapon that Israel has against her. So they resource to assassination of civilians and pounding their air, water and land with chemicals to make them infertile, the reports and facts need to be investigated–The Stream Media have completed overlooked and shadowed the reports of DIME
More to the story can be found Richard Lightbown
Israel should not settle for a truce with Hamas in Gaza, and should instead seek to topple the Islamist rulers of the coastal strip, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said .
“The goal that we have settled on, of seeking a return to calm, is a grave error because it will allow Hamas to reinforce along the lines of Hezbollah,” Lieberman told public radio, referring to the Lebanese militia with which Israel fought a 2006 war, killing 1,200, mostly civilians.
“The objective must be to force Hamas out of power,” said Lieberman, who heads the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.
“To return to calm accepts a war of attrition in which Hamas can determine when there is a lull and when the front is heating up,” he said.
A tense truce appeared to be taking hold between Hamas and Israel early Monday, after both sides stepped back from the brink SUNDAY.
The calm came after several days of confrontation between Israel and the Islamist group, which have raised tensions to their highest levels since Israel’s 2008-2009 war on Gaza.
The fighting, which has left at least 18 Palestinians dead, came after an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza hit an Israeli school bus on Thursday, wounding two people, one of them a teenager who was critically injured.
Hamas said the attack was in response to an earlier Israeli assassination of three senior members of the Islamist group, but claimed school children were not targeted, citing heavy use of the road where the projectile landed of military vehicles.
Israel responded to the bus attack with air strikes across the Gaza Strip, as Palestinian militant groups fired a barrage of rockets and mortar rounds into southern Israel, causing no further injuries.
But both Israeli and Hamas officials expressed interest in a truce by Sunday, and the rate of rocket fire dropped off significantly as a period of calm took hold. Hamas had offered a truce on Thursday evening, an hour ahead of a series of air strikes that hit targets across Gaza, killing four residents of The Gaza Strip.
Lieberman’s opposition to the truce is at odds with the support expressed for a ceasefire by other Israeli officials including Defense Minister Ehud Barak, but he ruled out a coalition breakup over the issue.
“I don’t want a government crisis, or to quit the coalition. We can influence much more from the inside than from the opposition,” he said.
Others within Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu party, including National Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau, expressed support for a new campaign of assassinations targeting Hamas members.
The statements came as Israel’s daily Haaretz newspaper reported that the country’s attorney general was expected to announce that he intends on filing an indictment against the official on charges of fraud, money laundering, and breach of trust.This case dates back to 2009, I think is time that Israel clean house
A draft indictment will be handed to Lieberman’s attorneys and he will be granted the right to a hearing to try to prevent the indictment, Haaretz said.
If indicted, he would be the latest in a string of Israeli leaders including a former prime minister to be brought up on corruption charges. In December, a former president was convicted of rape.
Freedom of Expression at the Core of The French Ban
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
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Just think about it, we as a society must not “imposed” our beliefs on others, being religious, political or any other kind.
If I allowed a group of men on women (sitting government) to decide what they think is good for 1 million or billion people,then we as a society are exposing ourselves to end up in a fascist society. To impair my ability to decide what to wear is the same as to impair my ability to decide what to say, or to impair my ability to decide what to eat. You could change the subject line to what ever word is that you want and applies to everyone of them.
Don’t allow yourself to be victim of radical minds that are working in their interest and not in the interest of society. We have come long way fighting for the “Rights OF BE OR NOT TO BE”……
Please show your support for the citizens of France that are facing a draconian law that is going to put their liberties in danger. Support our sisters in France to retain their freedom to wear or not to wear a religious accessory.
Protest against France’s Niqab ban – Defend freedom of religious and
What I like to Do or Say is in Danger
cultural expression – No to Islamophobia
Monday 11 April, 6pm
Outside the French Embassy
58 Knightsbridge
London SW1X 7JT
(nearest tube Knightsbridge)
or
Called by
Unite Against Fascism and One Society Many Cultures
Supported by
British Muslim Initiative / Islamic Forum of Europe / Islam Expo /
Enough Coalition /Free Minders of The Word
The ban on the niqab (full face veil) is due to come into force in
France on Monday 11 April. This denies Muslim women freedom of religious and cultural expression and the right to choose what they wear. Free and democratic societies should allow people to express their faith and culture, and women to dress however they choose.
The only beneficiary of this ban and the Islamophobic campaign that has accompanied it is the fascist Front National, which recently polled 36% of the vote where it stood candidates and 11% across the country, in France’s regional elections. There is a danger that FN leader Marine Le Pen could finish second in next year’s presidential elections.
Although there are no proposals to introduce such legislation in Britain, the ban on the niqab in France has provoked Islamophobic discussions and campaigns here. UKIP and the BNP have called for a ban on the burqa and niqab. There have also been racist attacks on Muslim women wearing head scarves and face veils
Thanks.
Peace
Gaza Was and Still Lives, Under Occupation and Under Attack We Still Gaza,Palestine
Posted on April 9, 2011
by Marivel Guzman
Oldest as Time Itself
The name Gaza means “strength and prevalence”
Gaza is one of the world’s oldest living cities. It is a city held to be of major strategic importance. It was the only overland route between Africa and Asia, which led Egypt to establish, in 3500 B.C., the citadel of Tell Sakan on the banks of the Wadi Ghazzeh, some 12km from the modern city.
We know that back in 2007 when the European Donors cut the money destined to the Palestinian Authorities, The PA was in hardship, and the holding of the Taxes from the Israeli government put the
government in more stress, but now 4 years later the situation have changed, the money given to the Palestinian Authority and the Loans and Help from the US government are in place, we are appealing for justice and distribution of the money owned to us by just cause. Gaza Families whose salaries were withhold by the PA in 2007. More than 100,000 Gazan still waiting for salaries to be paid
The Military Occupation that has kept us from prospering as a Nation is already a rope in our necks, and by adding an undeserved punishment from The PA government Gaza is put in an unusual situation, and the conditions worsen by the lack of central support, and World Support.
Unemployment in Gaza
The last estimates of the population in Gaza 1,657,155 (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 43.9% (male 374,110/female 354,088)
15-64 years: 53.5% (male 453,253/female 432,855)
65 years and over: 2.6% (male 17,326/female 25,523) (2011 est.)
These numbers might seem meaningless to you if you overlook them, but the working age in Gaza due the siege, military occupation is from 12 years and up, you can see children as young of 12 years old picking rubles close to the border of Rafah to make a few shekels to support their families, thousands of families in Gaza do not have a male head of household, either because he was killed, or is incarcerated, So more and more children and women are in the necessity to work to provide for their families. In a regular country where the legal age is 18 a 50% of unemployment will means a completely paralyzed society, but for Gaza after so many years under military occupation and more than 4 years of crippling siege their residents have survived and have shown the to the world their tremendous surviving spirit. But that by no means is a motive to keep ignoring their plight. Israel has gone away with so much injustice and ignore her obligations as an occupier power because sadly the Club of the United Nations even have set rules and regulations for bullies countries that wish to occupy illegally another people’s land.
Their residents in their attempts to survive have to resource to all types of occupations, working in the tunnels being on of the most dangerous of all the occupations, but when you have a family to feed you need to do what ever is available. United Nations seems to ignore what Gaza is suffering.
They venture dangerously close to the border fence to unlock metal and steel rods from their demolished home heaps. They are Gaza’s recyclers, and in a Strip where unemployment hovers at nearly 50 percent and poverty soars over 80 percent, environmental considerations are far from their minds. They do this work out of necessity.Yousef, 14, leads two of his younger brothers in
They come by the hundreds every day to sand dunes and rubble sites to sift for pebbles, stones and sand that can be used in making concrete blocks. They lean into trash bins across the Gaza Strip, and wade through piles of rubbish scavenging for plastics, metals and any bits worth reselling.
their daily hunt for concrete materials off the highway between Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah.
Gaza is plagued by poverty, malnutrition and unemployment 3 factors that are like a ticking bomb for the population, without counting the health conditions and the environmental damage due to continuous bombing with plutonium and others unknown chemicals that on recent years have done multiples mutations in newborns and caused fertility problem in their population.
The toxic waste one of the main concerns in Gaza, Israel air strikes have destroyed most of the sawyer system making a hazard problem comparable to a radiation explosion, the waste is being mix with the clean water reservoirs. Palestine is being forced to buy water from Israel as its drinking water is contaminated. And the lack of resources and legal binding from drilling for more wells put Palestine in a more difficult situation.
1967, when Tel Aviv occupied Gaza, the forces built three sewage treatment facilities there, which failed to treat most of the inflowing waste. The system was poorly modified during the 1980s.
Gaza, home to close to 1.7-million Palestinians, is currently almost four times more populous than the 80s but still dependent on the system.
The already dysfunctional facilities were further damaged during Israel’s frequent incursions over the past four years.
The damage done to the waste water-treatment facilities in the northern Gaza City during a December 2008-January 2009 war by Israel made some raw sewage find its way into the ground water sources, our reporter noted. The offensives also killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and
While dumping parts of its wastes in the coastal sliver and hogging its water supplies, Israel has made it extremely difficult for Gaza to bring in waste disposal equipments.
inflicted a damage of above USD 1.6 billion on the strip’s economy.
Tel Aviv, meanwhile, continues to aggravate the problem by partially disposing of its waste water in the Gaza valley. Israel’s all-out land, aerial and naval blockade, meanwhile, blocks the entrance of food, medical fuel and electricity supplies to the coastal sliver.
Gaza’s Coastal Aquifer yields more than 500 million cubic meters of water of which a little over a tenth is allocated to Gaza residents, and the rest is taken by Israel.
One of the groundwater wells in Khan Younis area in the Gaza Strip under regular monitoring program by the research shared project between the University of Heidelberg and the Gaza Governorate. Water is sampled and analyzed in both Gaza and Heidelberg for anions, cations, heavy metals and organic contaminants. (Credit: Environment and Information Center at Gaza Governorate, Gaza)Drinking Water In Gaza Strip Contaminated With High Levels Of Nitrate
Groundwater is the only source of drinking water for the majority of people living in the Gaza Strip. In babies younger than six months, nitrate can lead to methaemoglobinaemia, to diarrhea and to acidosis. The WHO therefore recommends keeping nitrate levels to 50 milligrams per litre or less. 90 per cent of their water samples were found to contain nitrate concentrations that were between two and eight times higher than the limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) The Global Organizations spend their millions of dollars making rules, making Reports, collecting Data but most of their resources is a waste of money and efforts because their findings and recommendations are completely ignored or shelved. Israel does not care for the damage that it inflicting to the environment, and to the people, IF EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) was in charge of Palestine, by this time Israel would have been forced to paid hundreds of billions of dollars in Fines.
War induced environmental threats continue to confront the population of Gaza: Health hazards resulting from the fractured sewage system caused by the bombings and toxic radiation contamination caused by Depleted Uranium (DU) and other Heavy Metal weaponry are manifesting at a staggering speed.
DIME weapons were first used against Gaza by Israeli drones in the summer of 2006, when Palestinian medical personnel reported that it significantly increased the fatality rate among victims. Shortly after the DIME weapons were also trialled during the first week of the war in Lebanon in July 2006.
Gaza is being used as a human experiment by Israel. There are reports from 3 Universities that conducted studies in bodies of martyrs and found Toxic and carcinogenic metals, able to produce genetic mutations, have been found in the tissues of people wounded in Gaza during Israeli military operations of 2006 and 2009. The research has been carried out on wounds provoked by weapons that did not leave fragments in the bodies of the victims, a peculiarity that was pointed out repeatedly by doctors in Gaza. This shows that experimental weapons, whose effects are still to be assessed, were used.
“Nobody – says professor Paola Manduca, spokesperson for the New Weapons Research Group, genetics teacher and researcher at the University of Genoa – had never conducted bioptic analysis on tissue samples from wounds. We have focused on wounds made by weapons that do not leave fragments, as the doctors from Gaza reported on them repeatedly. We wanted to verify the presence of metals that remained on the skin and in the derma. It was suspected that these metals were present in the weapons that leave no fragments, but it had never been demonstrated before. To our surprise even the burns provoked by white phosporus contain high amount of metals. Moreover, the presence of these metals in the weapons implies that they have been dispersed in the environment, in unknown amounts and range; they have been inhaled by the victims and by bystanders, thus constituting a risk for survivors and for people that were not directly hit by the bombing.”
Hot topics
There are reports that Israel is using a new weapon in the Gaza strip. More specifically, the claim is that Israel is using something called a DIME weapon. Say what? Yes, DIME weapons are real, it stands for Dense Inert Metal Explosive. In a nutshell a DIME weapon is a bomb or missile that detonates with powerful and lethal explosive power confined to a small area. The idea being to minimize “collateral damage” when using military weapons in urban areas. Yes, this is a humane killing device, science marches on!DIME-Dense Inert Metal Explosive
More allegations were brought to the light of the world when According to a Norwegian MD who was working at a Palestinian hospital in Gaza during the recent war the type of injuries that were inflicted on war casualties ,during this campaign, were different than anything that he has seen before in a war theater and he has seen quite a few conflagrations over the past thirty years. Another Norwegian doctor named DR. Gilbert told the Oslo Gardermoen that “there is a strong suspicion that Gaza is now being used as a test laboratory for new weapons.”
DIME EXPLOSION-Dense Inert Metal Explosive
The suspicion as expressed by many medical doctors is the use of what the US Army calls DIME, Dense Inert Metal Explosive. This weapon was originally designed by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories to inflict severe damage on people but cause lighter destruction on buildings. Dr. Brommant , a German Doctor , who was also present in Gaza, describes the injuries that he has witnessed by saying that “It seems to be some sort of explosive or shell that disperses tiny particles that penetrate all organs, these miniature injuries, you are not able to attack them surgically.” Those who are lucky to survive the initial injuries are most likely to develop RMS a deadly cancer related to the tungsten tiny particles.
Bodies with dead tissues and no apparent wounds; ‘shrunken’ corpses; civilians with heavy damage to lower limbs that require amputation, which is nevertheless followed by unstoppable necrosis and death; descriptions of extensive internal wounds with no trace of shrapnel, corpses blackened but not burnt, and others heavily wounded that did not bleed.
Many of these descriptions suggest the possibility that the new weapons used include ‘direct energy’ weapons, and chemical and/or biological agents, in a sort of macabre experiment of future warfare, where there is no respect for anything: International rules (from the Geneva Convention to the treaties on biological and chemical weapons), refugees, hospitals and the Red Cross, not to mention the people, their future, their children, the environment, which is poisoned through dissemination of Depleted Uranium and toxic substances released after oil and chemical depots are bombed.
Angels Of Death – The Nazi Doctors
Gaza, Palestine unique situation needs to be brought to the attention of the world, Israel uses Gaza as a tool of control to manage the “Peace Talks” conditions.
After all the analysis of Gaza conditions, seeing how malnutrition have made so much struggles in the health of the children, the elderly and pregnant woman.
The use of banned and illegal weapons on its population, the lack of clean drinking water, the destruction of its infrastructure including the purposely destroyed sewer system, the systematic bombing of their camps and cities using toxic chemicals that could be regarded as Chemical Weapons under United Nations Atomic Agency IF inspected, the psychological trauma of all Gaza Residents, the lack of safe housing and shelter, the shortage of everyday food supplies, the deliberately destruction of their agricultural lands, and ultimately the siege that do not allow them to run for refugee as other populations have done when their countries are invaded, attacked or plagued with internal conflicts.
Gaza is unique in every aspect of their struggles.
And as if their plight is not enough, the US and “ALLIES” named their Elected Party Official as a terrorist Organization with the only purpose to control more their lives not allowing friendly countries to freely help Gaza with their economical struggles.
The International Community, activist, independent media outlets, bloggers and peace activists that have followed Gaza situation, have worked arduously to raise awareness on the Truth about Israel Occupation and latest invasion of Gaza giving its residents hopes to change their lives. Gaza that enclave in the Mediterranean Ocean was one of the oldest places on Earth and Gaza Still Stand. They do not lose hopes that soon the World as a whole will see them as equal, their humanity still intact still praises the raise of the sun on that beautiful Gaza Sea, they pray everyday for a better tomorrow, their hopes are intact.
Gaza was and still Lives, Under Occupation and Under Attack still Stand Gaza Palestine.
Welcome to Come, Come To Gaza and meet the friendliest people in the planet.
The Raising Phoenix is the symbol of Gaza, Palestine.
Gaza gets a reminder of 2008-2009 war
Original Post by Omar Ghraieb
Friday 8, 2011, 2:04 AM (Gaza, Palestine)Israeli warplanes, warships and tanks continued their vicious and continuous assault on Gaza.
They targeted medics, 2 were injured while rushing to one of the targeted places by Israeli shelling using an ambulance. More residential areas and houses were also targeted.
Medics reported that 6 were dead in Gaza while 40 others got injured, from which many are women and children. Some of the injured were in a critical state while some others suffered from a life long disability due to heavy and direct shelling.
Israeli tanks approached from western and northern areas into Gaza, they shelled and targeted homes then opened sporadic fire before leaving.
Palestinian resistance declared cease-fire that starts at 11 pm Gaza time but it was one-sided, Israel didn’t oblige instead they responded by continuous shelling and air raids.
They re-raided the border line between Gaza and Egypt. Egyptian local news sources reported that a shell fell on a land inside Egyptian Rafah but with no reported injuries.
All dead and injured in Gaza were civilians.
Huge power outages took place in Khan Younis and Rafah after Israel’s heavy shelling on Gaza, many power lines and converters were damaged.
Explosions, sporadic fire and Israeli warplanes were heard till 3 am of April the 8th.
It looks like the upcoming days will bring more assaults and attacks.
So to be continued….
Posted by Omar Ghraieb at 2:04 AM
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Israel carried out mass shelling on Gaza
Israel assaults Gaza again
Gaza, April 7, Israel carried out mass shelling on Gaza using full force and all war tools.
Israel used warplanes (F16s, Apaches and drones), warships and tanks to bomb Gaza non-stop for consecutive 3 hours targeting most of Gaza. Israel shells fell on residential areas targeting houses belonging to Qudaih, Al Manasra and Hellis families.
Israel also used full force to raid Rafah, Gaza intl, airport, Khan younis, Zaytoon neighborhood, Deir Al Balah, Jabalya, Shujae’ya, Qarara and several others places.
Adham Abu Salmeyah, Health Ministry official, One Gazan died, Mahmoud Al Manasra, 50, and over 25 got injured till now. A guy also reached the hospital aleady amputated after being directly hit by an Israeli shell, 2 farmers were also injured when a shell fell on their farm.
Israeli forces targeted most of Southern Northern and Eastern Gaza.
Palestinian resistance fired earlier a mortar that fell on a bus in Nahal Oz injuring a number of Israelis, they continued responding back to Israel’s vicious attack by firing some Grad rockets and mortars.
Israeli shells fell on residential homes, a hospital, farmed lands, a factory, an ambulance, power generator in Khan Younis causing power outages and Al Rayes Mountain.
Israel has been targeting Gaza for the past two days with over night air raids but with no reported injuries.
Israel’s shelling on Gaza continues while the Palestinian resistance also trying to continue responding.
Mohamed Al Madhoon, a journalist, also got injured during Israel’s mass shelling on Gaza and his situation is critical.
To be continued ……
Posted by Omar GhraiebApril 7, 2011 Gaza,Palestine at 6:07 PM
The Next Knock Out, Forclosure & Banks Bail Outs, Wars & Profits, Accidents/Catastrophes and More!
Posted on April 1, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
The Wars,Earthquakes,Tsunamis,Nuclear and Oil Accidents,Revolutions, all paying off well. “Blue chips achieving the best quarterly gains since 1998”. OH! Bad News for Jobless American, 6,000 Americans lost benefits, but don’t worry! “Seasonally adjusted 388,000, which was mostly in line with analysts’ previous estimates”. So it makes it OK, because they Estimated it. Statistics are Fake Numbers to Numb your MIND
U.S stocks traded mixed in the last trading day of the first quarter, with blue chips achieving the best quarterly gains since 1998.
Investors were concerned that a possible inflation risk might hurt the U.S. economic recovery as oil prices on Thursday hit the highest level since September 2008. Meanwhile, the market stayed uneasy as many markets-affecting issues, such as the nuclear leakage incidents in quake-hit Japan and unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, remained unsettled.
The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, fell below 18.
On the economic front, the U.S. jobless data last week showed the jobs market was still on the track of improving. The Labor Department posted that initial claims for state unemployment benefits slipped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, which was mostly in line with analysts’ previous estimates.
Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said new orders for manufactured goods fell 0.1 percent to 446 billion dollars, after an upwardly revised 3.3 percent gain in January.
As for stocks, basic materials still led the gainers on Thursday. Transportation and energy sectors were also among the biggest winners but financial shares were down 0.23 percent as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rejected American International Group’s plan to repurchase a risky set of mortgage-backed securities late Wednesday.
Frauds and Bonuses
AIG settles longstanding fraud cases for $1 billion
Isn’t is neat?, this Giant Insurance American Insurance Company engaged in one of the biggest frauds on American history and make billions on the scam and settle for 750,000 Millions. Plus get Bail Out Money.
And the Big Bonuses and Bribes started rolling in the high circles of corruption, high up in the the floors of the tallest buildings.
So Who Win and Who Loose? We the People Loose and The Bankers Win.
But what about the “Natural Disasters”!, Weather Defense System, Ring Any Bells? HAARP could accidentally lose control of the Frequencies that Generates? Maybe and cooking the Earth at very low frequency is a dangerous Business to engage, unless they have a magic wand to stop the process once is unleashed. How much of control does HAARP has over their Giants Antennas? Could they generate a strong Earthquake able to shake the sea beds and created a Giant Wave?
The United States Navy and Air Force have joined with the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, to build a prototype for a ground based “Star Wars” weapon system located in the remote bush country of Alaska.
The individuals who are demanding answers about HAARP are scattered around the planet. As well as bush dwellers in Alaska, they include: a physician in Finland; a scientist in Holland; an anti-nuclear protester in Australia; independent physicists in the United States; a grandmother in Canada, and countless others.
And who win and who lose, Insurance Companies, The International Monetary Fund will come to the rescue, …Say Again!…Bankers will rescue the devastated Countries, and those countries will need some food to survive..Guess!
MONSANTO comes to the rescue donating infected (Genetically Modified Seeds)…
The base of any species survival reside in the SEED. When we modify the structure of development of its genes we are creating a molecular conflict with its environment and its ability to evolve and adapt to the surroundings that were in place before its modification.
Monsanto have played in this field for quite some times, in its efforts to monopolize the supply of seeds, control its development and future behavior in a specific type of soil, which have also been modified to create the conditions for the new structure to grow.Monsanto can change the genes of a particular specie of seed, and maybe change the soil where it will be developed, but Monsanto can not possible control all the conditions in the environment; such the weather conditions that are required to create healthy plants, microscopic organisms that by normal natural law live in certain types of soils.
Monsanto More Dangerous than War Itself
China might be the WWIII Winner, if we survive it. Think Again. The Sleeping Giant? After all all the civilized world sent, their manufactures to China, All kind of “Made in China” the Whole World got inundated with electronics, clothing, toys, gadgets, even babies. Now we have a Giant Country that own most of Government Bonds of the Civilized World. We made China Strong, and we all weaken our Countries. And Now What?
Huang Haiyuang, a senior researcher
who has traveled widely in
the West, summarized seven PLA technological
priorities:
information operations and warfare
air and missile technology
precision guided munitions
defensive weapon technology
unmanned aerial vehicle technology
military space technology
naval carrier (air-to-ship integration).
China Liberation Army: Looks At The Future
by C H A R L E S F. H A W K I N S
Armageddon! Nope…We The People are The Sleeping Giant…Time To WAKE UP..and Take Control of your Future, or others will do for you.
WHEN Israeli Jets Bombard Gaza Strip (via Akashma Web Blogs)
When Israel attacked Gaza in the winter of 2009, close to 1500 Palestinians died, including 600 children under 16, more than 300 women and elderly died in a 22 days of Israel bombardment.
The world did not watched the massacre in the news because the stream media decided not to cover the actions of Israel. Some outlets briefly mentioned some deaths but always making sure the blame was in Palestinians and not in the mighty army of Israel that with all her war arsenal was allowed to attack a defenseless country that do not possess one single plane, tank, or war ship.
Palestine is a sitting duck for Israel and even thought some leaders around the world are fast to blame the few resistance fighters that still dare to confront the mighty of Israel.
Time and time again every president of United States have given Israel the right to “Defend herself”, telling with this coward statement that is ok to keep killing Palestinians, No body care for them!.
But they’re wrong, more and more people around the world have finally noticed Israel tactics and how the use of propaganda to sway the blame away from her.
Resistance Is the Right to The People to Exist With Prospect For Peace
Posted on March 28, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
How to subsist without resistance, when the law of the jungle is enforced on the weak of the world?
We have the West with its mighty Army of paid soldiers and hungry mercenaries enforcing ‘Democracy’, planting death and destruction. Ravaging the land they chose to destroy. They bend the will of the people using the most horrifying methods men have invented in the last 100 years.
US and its Allies went to Iraq and have killed close to a million people, destroyed the infrastructure of one of the oldest and most advance societies of the World. Iraq with its glorious history, it wealth, pride and natural resources taken as a booty as ordinary theft. They invented all the preliminary excuses to corner the government of Sadam Hussein, they enforced a no fly Zone In the North and in the South of Iraq, destroyed all Military Power of Iraq, they got the UN to imposed terrible sanctions, the Oil was to be sold to the Agencies specified by the UN only, in a term of 10 years Iraq was economically destroyed, military destroyed so when US and Allies invaded it was easy pray.
Now we have the story repeating itself with another Oil Producer Country this time is Libya in the North of Africa and one of the 10 exporter of Oil, in this case as the African Oil Producer are in a specific situation they have this Light Oil Crude, cheap and easy to Refine. The US and Allies prepare the territory with a fake civil war, CIA style and once the situation is right, again they are using the UN to imposed a No Fly Zone, where the only missiles that kill will be that of US and Allies.
Who gives the right to the UN to sign death sentences of unarmed population,
Who say that they have the right to disposed of the Natural Resources of a Sovereign Country?
Israel The Other Bully in the Block, every year with made up excuses, force the US or the UN to brake up a government or two.
Israel has kept Palestine isolated from the world, has kept Palestine unable to defend herself, her society destroyed, her economy to receive crumbs from the International Community, her agricultural lands ravaged, her people terrorized, incarcerated and tortured, and as if all the horrors that Palestinians live every day are not enough Israel has made believe the world that they are the terrorist. So outrageous for the people that knows the truth, it is unbelievable that the West and its allies knowing the truth they have financed and armed Israel.
The UN Club of 5 knowing the truth, they have kept a blind eye on the massacres perpetrated by Israel, the murders of Palestinians citizens, the target assassinations of her leaders all being cover up and ignore by the international body that suppose to enforce human rights around the world, the International body that supposed to enforce peace.
Lies that Stick, Struggles that Sell. The Media Broke Out the Silence
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Palestine Youth Broke the Silence! Not after the Tunisia Revolution and certainly not after the Egyptian Revolution.
“Palestinian youth have been inspired by uprisings in Arab countries, Pushing for a Palestinian Tahrir” Aljazeera Channel
I don’t think so, [Aljazeera] Palestinian youth have plenty of inspiration to uprise in their own merit. I think 63 years are few generations of struggles, pains, death, suppression and oppression being from their own leadership, but mostly from Israel IDF soldiers. The Palestinian Youth of today have suffered more than other youth around the world, and I don’t think that the inspiration born out of Tunisia or Egypt.
Palestinian youth have been resisting their own internal struggles they have been in the walls of facebook, youtube, myspace and other networks for years, in these days you taking notice of them is different because it seems that you the ‘Big Networks’, the ‘Big Media’ never have paid attention to their cries.
That you the Streamedia are writing about them it is a different story, and you did it because it sound juicy for your ratings.
The Struggles of Palestine
When the Youth Of Gaza Broke Out Manifesto first made the light to the streammedia, it was the first time that the manifesto was in the wires and it was not the first time the youth of Gaza broke the silence (GYBO). They have been braking the silence in their struggle with Israel with the world, they have been dying in front of your cameras and they have been called the perpetrators, they have been fighting with bare hands and rocks against tanks and you the media have been calling them the terrorists, they have been incarcerated and tortured and you have been silenced.
You the media is the one that broke the silence on January when the activists in the worldwide in a bold move sided with them and we all push for their voices to be heard. When you saw that they were making waves then you took advantage of their light and you decided that the story was good enough to be written about it.
They did not inspire out of Jasmin Revolution or the Tahrir Square, NO! Sandy Tolan, you picked up that title because it is catchy and sounds good and will be grab in the crawler of the web.
Now there are conflicts with the two main political parties in Palestine, from one side we have the Palestinian Authority closure of more than 300 NGOs in West Bank, charities that Hamas over the years has financed and sponsored, and they [Hamas] were doing the right thing in the Occupied Territories, but the egos got lose and the PA could not accept Hamas’victory without inflicting low punches, without seeing that the only losers are the Palestinians. Since 1982 Hamas is the organization that has been in charge of most of the health and social life of Palestine.
The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory, Maxwell Gaylard, today voiced his concern about the forced closure on 30 November by the local authorities in Gaza of all Gaza-based offices of the non-governmental organization Sharek Youth Forum.
“I am very concerned about the recent forced closing of Sharek Youth Forum in Gaza. Sharek is an important NGO partner of the United Nations in its work on behalf of children and the youth in Gaza”, Mr. Gaylard said.
Mr. Gaylard noted that “Sharek’s work forms part of the many important activities carried out by civil society organizations in the occupied Palestinian Territory promoting development and the protection of human rights.“
He stated that freedom of association and freedom of expression are fundamental rights protected by international law as well as the Palestinian Basic Law and expressed his hope that Sharek would be permitted to continue its work in Gaza without further delay or undue hindrance.
Statement by Maxwell Gaylard,
United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the occupied Palestinian Territory
On the Closure of Sharek Youth Forum in the Gaza StripJerusalem, 7 December 2010
Since 2007 the Fatah-dominated government in the West Bank has also closed more than 300 Hamas and Islamic-linked charities and NGOs.
I don’t see the UN raising the flag for the 300 Charities closed down in West Bank by the PA, not that Sharek Youth Forum be less important, but my note is in the context of marking the double standards used to emphasize the wrongs of one political party vs the other one, Hamas over their favorite Fatah.
The PA that is being cracking down on the resistance in the West Bank pleasing and serving the interest of Israel. Maybe the goal is toward “The Peace Talks” but we all know that Israel does not recognized Abbas as a “Peace Partner.”
Seriously speaking Israel does not know the meaning of peace.
And let’s mention also the continuous arrests of peaceful protesters in West Bank and Jerusalem, but not from the PA but from IDF forces that without mercy use lethal force to stop the demonstrators from expressing their opposition to the illegal Wall, the closure of Shuhada Street in Hebron, the demolitions of homes in East Jerusalem, the dispossession of homes, the illegal arrests of Palestinians and other very serious issues that the UN keep ignoring, even the murder of internationals is not a serious topic for our “Peace Keepers in New York Headquarters.”
Where is the Big Media in these important events that take place inside Palestine? Why don’t you Brake the Silence and exposed Israel Once and for all?..Will be the day that we will be celebrating Earth Day.
The next excerpts was taken from an article published by Aljazeera, I bring it to you because it has some good information, I do not agree with the way they portray the youth of Palestine taking the merit of their struggles, but now they are taking their time to give you a taste of the occupation with the “Big Media flavor”. Even thought in their article I see the youth of West Bank is not Numb as the great majority of the population, they [youth] see the situation from their young minds from different perspective.
“If you look at our social situation, people in Ramallah don’t care, mostly speaking,” says Dina Shilleh, a 27-year-old piano teacher who returned with her parents from Serbia during the heady early days of Oslo. “If they can go out, they have their car, they have their house, they can dress nicely, that’s kind of what it’s about. There’s a lot that’s been sedated. Because in the end you want to live. It’s like, hey, how long do you want to keep fighting? My grandparents fought, my parents fought. Am I gonna do it? My kids? It would have to be something that would really spark the people to get out of this numbness.”
I personally have experienced the disinterest from some Palestinians here in California and in Ramallah, they simply don’t care, they can come to the US, they work, eat and entertain themselves as long as they are not taking the heat from the IDF they care less for Gaza or for the struggles of Shuhada Street residents or East Jerusalem.
It is disappointing but also I see they are tired of fighting, they lived the occupation in their worse times, what can we do to wake up their dreams of freedom again?
Aljazeera Article published March, 05, 2011
On a cool January evening at the height of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution, Najwan Berekdar and a few friends were sitting at a smoky café in Ramallah, puffing on water pipes and strategising. “We were talking about what’s happening in Tunisia, and we decided, maybe this is the momentum – we should use it,” Berekdar remembers weeks later from her office at Sharek, a youth-oriented Palestinian NGO. “We were, like, five people. We were sitting with our laptops and we said, ‘Okay, let’s make an event.’ We wanted something to encourage people to go out.” Within days, masses of Egyptians began filling Tahrir Square, and 27-year-old Berekdar, her friends and like-minded Palestinian youths were even more inspired. “We wanted to send this message that it is time for us to do something. And obviously we can do it. Look at other people. If they managed to do it, we can do it.” The demonstrations these Palestinian youths helped organized were quickly banned, sometimes with clubs, by a Palestinian Authority (PA) with deep historic and political ties to the Tunisian and Egyptian dictatorships. But then other groups began forming their own demonstrations. And Berekdar and her friends, through email loops and a face-to-face “thinking group” of about 20 academics and intellectuals, organized new protests. “We were suppressed by the PA a second time and a third time,” she says. Soon Palestinian authorities began to investigate the group. “One of our group members was called by the police, and by the intelligence, and by – I don’t know, we have four security forces, I think,” Berekdar says. (Actually, there are five.) “They stayed at his home until one in the morning.” The mukhabarat assumed the young man was the ringleader, Berekdar recalls with amusement. They pressed him for details of the hierarchy of what is in fact a loose, ever-shifting coalition that only recently got a name: Hirak Shebab, or Youth Movement. It is an informal, mostly leaderless group – a concept the centralised PA does not seem to grasp. As Berekdar spoke, at 1:30 on a recent afternoon, an email came in from a friend. About the demonstration that day at 6:00: Should they do it at Manara Square in the centre of Ramallah or outside the Muqata, the PA headquarters? Berekdar was not sure. Scarcely four hours before the event, she seemed unhurried, and confident of Hirak Shebab’s ability to get sufficient numbers to show up at the last minute. Berekdar is trying to involve young people, both unaffiliated and from different Palestinian parties, including Hamas. She estimates that so far about 2,000 people connect with the group’s message pushing for democracy and fundamental change. “It’s about changing the whole discourse of the Palestinians,” she says. “It is time for us to start doing something. Because obviously the political leadership is not doing anything.” The ‘pulse of Palestine’ In the revolutionary spirit spreading across the Middle East, Palestinian youth groups have become a small but important catalyst in a building wave of discontent with PA repression and complicity in a failed “peace process” backed by the US. The groups’ actions are sparked not only by events in the region, but by the US veto of the UN Security Council’s condemnation of Israeli settlements. A widening circle of Palestinian groups are calling for an end to negotiations with Israel, an end to the political division between the West Bank and Gaza and wholesale reform of the PA and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). Some advocate dissolving the PA completely. “Fatah and Hamas have failed Palestinian society,” says Nader Said, a Palestinian pollster and political analyst. Youth, he says, “represent the pulse and conscience of Palestine”. In Gaza, Said says, young people “are the ones who have demonstrated in the middle of the shooting, covering their faces with paper bags,” so that security forces would refrain from possibly shooting a brother or cousin. “They are the soul of the Palestinians,” but by themselves, “they’re not strong enough to carry the emancipation agenda.” Yet the message is resonating well beyond the youth groups. As Palestinians under a 43-year occupation watch their Arab neighbours fight for democracy, pressure increases on the PA to reform itself – or at least, to appear to do so. Faced with the threat of the US veto, the PA sought to burnish its resistance credentials by refusing to yield to American pressure to call off the Security Council vote. And Salam Fayyad, the prime minister, recently sent a message to Palestinian youth via Facebook, asking for input as he forms a new Palestinian cabinet. Within hours, he received hundreds of replies – some supportive, some sceptical. “Now suddenly they’re this nationalistic body that’s clinging to Palestinian rights?” scoffed Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former PA negotiator, in a recent interview. “They’ve put their finger to the wind, and realised that the wind has changed. Right now you don’t want to be seen as the one nation that’s clinging to the United States. So they had to do something.” But others say the pressure from emerging Arab democracies, and what one insider called the “betrayal” by the US, may force the PA to turn inward, and thus make the kind of core changes it has long resisted. “We do not want an authority that is a buffer between the people and the occupation,” says Qais Abu Leila, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a founder of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. “We need a Palestinian Authority that is part of the people and a continuation of the struggle against occupation.” Abu Leila believes the shifting political landscape may force the PA to confront its increasingly undemocratic, authoritarian character. “We are now facing the danger of the emergence of more or less police regimes” in Gaza and the West Bank. Under the PA, he says, “gradually the democratic checks and balances of government are fading away”. ‘A quiet colonisation’ Fundamental change within the PA, if it happened, would likely include a reassessment of its security cooperation with Israel. Some coordination of visas and safe passages, and movement of Palestinian police between West Bank towns, would continue, reformers say. More draconian measures seen as collaboration with Israel’s occupation could be suspended. These include the extralegal arrest and detention of hundreds of Palestinians, and incidents of torture, documented by Palestinian human rights groups, in the name of fighting terrorism and preventing a Hamas takeover in the West Bank. Human Rights Watch recently called on the US and EU to suspend aid to the PA “pending concrete steps to end a culture of impunity for security service abuses, including torture”. But a Palestinian decision to suspend security cooperation would likely have huge financial consequences. In recent years the US has spent nearly half a billion dollars in training and “professionalising” key parts of a 25,000-strong Palestinian security apparatus under three-star American general Keith Dayton. The money flow would likely reduce to a trickle if basic principles of the arrangement were suspended. Some analysts believe the PA could survive possible cuts in US funding, especially if the EU stepped into the breach. Others are sceptical. “The PA is a security subcontractor for Israel,” says Buttu. Despite the pressure the PA is facing, she does not foresee any change. “The whole aim is to allow Israel to have a very quiet occupation, a very quiet colonisation.” “We alleviated the occupation from its responsibility,” agrees Ali Jarbawi, a longtime critic of the authority who recently joined the government as the Palestinian minister of planning. “And they [Israelis] are living happily ever after when you go to Dizengoff Street and sip wine with the yuppies at these sidewalk cafés. As if the West Bank does not exist. As if Gaza does not exist. As if the Palestinians do not exist.” Jarbawi believes the two-year state-building plan the PA put in place in 2009, overseen by Fayyad, should be given a chance to work – but only until September 2011. Jarbawi insists there must be a limit to official Palestinian patience. “You can’t keep the negotiation track open forever, and keep the dependency on aid also open forever, so the world is paying for the continuation of the occupation. And at the same time they are building settlements on the ground, eating what’s supposed to become our state.” Jerusalem: ‘The next Tahrir?’ After September, Jarbawi says, the Palestinian strategy could include an end run around the US, through an appeal to the other members of the “Quartet” – the EU, Russia and the UN – to recognise a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders. Already nine Latin American nations have stepped forward. “Brazil, through this letter, recognises the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders,” Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the then Brazilian president, wrote to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, in December. Other options Jarbawi envisions include asking for an international presence in the West Bank, building a new, nonviolent intifada – “one million people walking down the streets, chanting for an end to occupation” – or even dissolving the very authority in which Jarbawi now works. “That has to remain a viable option,” he says. Abu Leila believes dissolving the PA is unrealistic. But he insists the pressure for reform has become too great to ignore. “There is an almost universal recognition that there must be radical change in Palestine, and that it must start with ending the division” with Gaza, he says, echoing comments by Berekdar and many others. He calls this step essential “in order to face the occupation and a hostile policy adopted by the US. The PA could organise the Palestinian society in a way that could fuel the struggle against the Israeli occupation. This is a meaningful option.” This may be starting to happen. In February, Tawfiq Tirawi, a member of the Central Committee of the PLO and until recently the PA security chief, called for “days of rage” protests against the American veto in the Security Council. “They consider themselves the masters of the world,” said the man who until recently helped coordinate security arrangements with Israel and the US. “They [the Americans] call for democracy and freedom. They say that they want this for all nations of the world, but when it comes to the Palestinian people, it just evaporates. The interest of our people is the most important thing. We will say no to the Americans if it is not in the interest of our people.” Some Palestinians believe a nonviolent popular uprising is coming in Palestine – whether backed by the PA or not. “Resistance has always been a unifying force,” says Hani Masri of Badael, the Ramallah think-tank. “The youth, they are telling the leadership, either you will be changing or you will be changed.” Masri and others are discussing mass mobilisations, including 50,000 to 100,000 Palestinians marching peacefully to Qalandia, the checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah that now resembles an international border crossing. Beyond that, he asks, “why can’t we turn Jerusalem into the next Tahrir?” Weekly protests in the Palestinian towns of Bili’in, Budrus and Nili’in have already received international attention as focal points of a nonviolent Palestinian resistance. But whether mass mobilisations will actually take place to confront the Israeli occupation is another matter. High price of confrontation “The big question today is whether the Palestinian society has the juice to create a real civil disobedience, refusing-the-occupation campaign,” says Gershon Baskin, the co-director of the Jerusalem-based Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information, and a strong advocate of the two-state solution. “There are 24,000 Palestinians working in settlements. Two Rami Levi supermarkets opened up in the West Bank, and many of the shoppers are Palestinian. If you’re going to wage a campaign to simply say we’re not cooperating any more with the occupation, then what that means is you’re not going to work in Israel any more, you’re not going to work in the Israeli settlements … You’re going to have confrontation with the occupation. And that has a very high price.” Would Palestinians, so dependent on the foreign-funded jobs and services that Buttu calls “donor heroin,” be willing to forego the sharp reduction in aid that would surely accompany a new strategy of confrontation? “In the short term we would really pay a heavy price economically,” Buttu agrees. “For one thing, you wouldn’t see people sitting around in nice cafés like this,” she says, smiling ironically while sitting in Ramallah’s Café de la Paix. But confronting the occupation “would definitely unite people who are not united now”. “Something could spark it,” Baskin says. “Who would have predicted Tunisia, Egypt, Libya? But I don’t see Palestinian society having the energy today to do it. Israelis and Palestinians today feel much more comfortable pushing a ‘like’ button on their Facebook page than going out to the street.” That may or may not be true. As major checkpoints have come down recently, the occupation has loosened around Ramallah, Nablus and Jenin, and relative freedom within a small portion of the West Bank has created a sense of limited breathing room. For some Palestinians, quality of life has gone up. Some say the “donor heroin” has created a sense of comfort, even complacency, in the small enclave inside the West Bank. “If you look at our social situation, people in Ramallah don’t care, mostly speaking,” says Dina Shilleh, a 27-year-old piano teacher who returned with her parents from Serbia during the heady early days of Oslo. “If they can go out, they have their car, they have their house, they can dress nicely, that’s kind of what it’s about. There’s a lot that’s been sedated. Because in the end you want to live. It’s like, hey, how long do you want to keep fighting? My grandparents fought, my parents fought. Am I gonna do it? My kids? It would have to be something that would really spark the people to get out of this numbness.” And yet, when Hirak Shebab organised demonstrations at Manara Square recently, Dina answered the call. “We need a new leadership,” she says, recalling her chants against the occupation and in favour of democracy. “We need a new idea.”
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In Between! Religion As a Tool of Division
Posted on March 28, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Islam a Thread to the Western Powers
I think all of us got mistaken their goal. They do not want to destroy Muslims because of their Religion, No! We all got into their game and because we went into their game is that they started controlling us.They want to destroy any movement, any religion that unite humanity.
It is not because Religion itself. Remember already happened in the past, it has happened many times before.
The Crusades, The Inquisition, The Witch Hunt, Pagans Slaughter, Native Indians Holocaust, in every one of those events people got exterminated, murdered, oppressed, always using Religion to excuse the slaughter.
They want the control of the people and Religion it is the best weapon they have.
People get passionate about their religion. Religion Itself is to blame because it is wrongly prescribed, I have my arguments to explain and without any sentiment to disrespect any Religion or Belief; In the Holy Books we read horrible stories of massacres ordered by God Order, they teach us to Kill for our religion,They teach us To defend Our God,they Teach us to Defend our religious ideas. And there is always the argument that those people were slaughtered because they were Away from God.
Some will do “NO MATTER WHAT”! and those are the ones being USED for their Agenda. Those are the ones Called Extremist, Fundamentalists. They are not Too religious per say, but weak minds that let themselves be victims of a doctrine or credo that will work against his own well being, and that of the community.
I do not see it wrong to tell the world my religion, but when I do so, I take the risk to open a susceptibility against me, and this goes for every one on earth that publicly subscribe to a Certain religion. And it is not wrong, not that they should be ashamed, but we must learn and be smarter than them, the Controllers of Earth (Elite-Globalists-NWO) and not allow them to make us players in their game.
This time on Time, Islam is the fastest Religion in the Planet, and because of that, it is a threat to them; There is important for them because Islam it is thought to be a way of life, with their civil rules, and Official Regulations making with this a Secular Government Obsolete, so it is a threat to them that Islam grows as a Governmental Entity. And Why?
“Their Banking System” does not allow Interest to be charged, Does not allow usury. And that it is in the Heart of this “Islamophobia” War on Terror.
Libya Invasion is the best example of their “War in Terror”, when you have a Political Figure such as Moamar Gadhafee that prays 5 times a day, that stands against to the Stronger Country of the world, and works against her spoil brat, Israel and in top of that, do everything for his people, and want to help all Africa to shake out the grip of the west and is planing to Institute a Muslim African Central Bank, for the people of Africa (No interest Bank)
When we have famous and important scholars preaching that Islam is not a Religion but a Way of life, that constitute a danger for the Western Powers, the Colonialist/European powers, that lives out of the sweat of the people and out of ravaging the land that they conquer.
Why we have to be between the two alternatives If Islam is a way of life and Politics are the way to control life why not make a cocktail of the two and Make One. But in a way to not to hurt sensitives leave the name Islam out of the equation. Do your duties as Muslim, respect your neighbors as Christian, respect nature as Buddhist, love humanity as Human.
If only the people of the world understand Islam in its core; is not a Religion per say, Is not a controlling government wing, is not just spiritual realization or human manifestation. Islam is all that we will need if we would only understand the deep meaning of its inception in human conscientiousness.
For Centuries humanity has been being used as a labor hand, as a slavery group on Earth.
Various Religions tried in the pass to enlighten humanity and liberate us from the chains, but time and time again the Religious Strong Heads of the Churches in power oversaw the danger on letting all humanity being enlighten, and united, and with this to be lost as fervent followers or working hands. So All the religions of the Past had felt victims of their own control.
When Islam came to humanity 1400 years ago, it was shown as a great force to unify all humanity, but again the controllers of Earth radicalized the ideas of Islam and converted it by propaganda in a Religion of Violence. And here we are trying to converge the two powers in one. The power of Islam Vs the Power of Politics.
Merciful God, You made all of the people of the world in Your own image and placed before us the pathway of salvation through different Preachers who claimed to have been Your Saints and Prophets. But, the contradictions in their teachings and interpretations of them have resulted in creating divisions, hatreds and bloodshed in the world community. Millions of innocent men, women and children have so far been brutally killed by the militants of several religions who have been committing horrifying crimes against humanity, and millions more would be butchered by them in the future, if You do not help us find ways to reunite peacefully.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL, look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the controversial teachings of arrogance, divisions and hatreds which have badly infected our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; reunite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish Your purposes on earth; that, in Your good time, all nations and races may jointly serve You in justice, peace and harmony. (Amen) Movement for Reforming Society
I want to understand the true meaning under all the published and twisted baggage of all religions. The real meaning of the message so trilled, cropped, changed, misunderstood.
I read the Bible and find beautiful examples of harmony, peace and love, but also find terrible stories of massacres, hate and intolerance.
I read the Qur’an and find more examples of good will, love and compassion, but also find the same stories rehearsed of hate, massacre and intolerance.
I read the Buddha teachings and also has wonderful recipes for a life, and love between men, and love for nature.
So I wonder!
Why doctrines keep changing with the time. We seen that none of the religions had unify humanity in its entirely, they had divided us greatly. Divided so much, that now we have entire encyclopedias written explaining why X religion is better than Y, but in reality we see that humanity has not changed. We still have the same economic problems of the past, political games play. Religion has not fix none of our problems.
Earth still ravaged by greed, people still dying under the bombs of powerful nations, millions living under the line of poverty, thousands dying every day by starvation and diseases.
What religions do to alleviate our problematic?
Do religions make the situation worse fighting each other trying to force the other religions to recognized them as the “true religion” ?
The Elite went into war apply for their advantage and they getting richer, selling their Gadgets of war. They do not care who live or die, they sell their war weapons to the two sides of the conflict. And there is no US, Britain, Israel or UN countries against Muslims, No!, the men behind the curtain are the ones plotting this war in Terror Scheme, and Bush and Company are the Pawns in their Game.
Think for Instance the Most Islamic Country in the World “Saudi Arabia”??? The best Ally and Friend of the Makers of War. GO FIGURE THAT OUT. SO I say, stay out of their game, just STAY HUMAN OUR HEART WILL DICTATE THE BEST FOR HUMANITY
No Fly Zone,No Kill Zone In Gaza Should Be Enforced
Posted on March 22, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Our World Is In Danger
The Peace Activists of the world in their efforts to stop the slaughter in Gaza by Israeli Missiles, is demanding that the UN members to draft a resolution addressing this matter, and that in their provisions include that:
“No country will have the right to override the power of the majority of its members”, and with this to set a precedent for future resolutions involving peace in the world.
For so long we have seen how That UN members have played a game of politics for the only purpose of distracting the world.
We have seen how resolution over resolution have been ignored by Israel or veto by US, when the resolutions involve in any way the protection of Palestinians.
UN Club have for many years insulted our intellect with their endless sessions that don’t serve any purpose but to legalize wars and conflicts. It seems that UN is not the enforcer of peace but the legitimizer and stamper of wars.
The World in this moments suffer the worse of the conflicts ever seen in the history of humanity, we have developed the most dangerous weapons that anybody can imagine, we count with weapons:
Able to pulverize entire buildings, to melt the most strong of the metals leaving no trace, to burn and disintegrate organic matter in matter of seconds, we are able to shake whole cities by the push of few bottoms, we can created storms and droughts in a matter of hours, we can change the directions of the currents of the oceans and disrupt the reproductive cycle of the ocean creatures, we control the weather and with that we change the pattern of the migrations of the birds. We really should be afraid of our technology.
Israel being one of the most advance technologically speaking entities in the world, it makes her the most dangerous for peace in the middle east and in the world, for her arrogance and disregards of international law. And also because she never abide by the rules of war and conflicts already established by the Geneva Convention and the Human Rights Status, does not share her military inventions, does not disclosure her illegal reverse engineer technology, and her nuclear capabilities.
The UN should retake its role in the pacification of the world, and should start with Israel.
And abolish the Veto Power of the Club of 5.
We need as a humanity to step our efforts to stop the rogue nations that do not serve the world, but their own agenda of destruction and control.
You Are Missing the Point: IT’s not Religious Intolerance
Posted on November 12, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
Hello every one.
I think a lot of people seems to be missing the point.
Palestine is an occupied land. Occupied by Israel.
Does not matter which way you want to paint Israel, the people that live in Israel, at least the Europeans Jews that came after the partition of Palestine, are the reason that Palestinians homes are being demolished, they are the reason that there are 4.5 Palestinians Refugees in neighboring countries, they are the reason that settlements exist in Palestine.
There were Arab Jews before the partition of Palestine, and they were living just fine, the problems for them and Muslims started when Palestine was divided and stolen from native Palestinians. Please do not get me wrong, many Jews that have sympathized with the Palestinian’s struggles also have also lost their homes and some are being incarcerated, specially the most devoted Jews that do not accept the state of Israel to being forced upon the people.
There is a very true statement that said: “There can not be peace without justice” and as long as the land is not returned to Palestinians, there could be no Peace.
Resistance to the Occupation is a Crime, IOF does not need excuse to kidnapped Palestinians, if they are between 12 to 60 years old, that is a crime
We can sing along all we want trying to promote tolerance of religion, co-habitat between Jews, Christians and Muslim tolerance but again you are missing the point, this conflict it not about religion, that notion is the propaganda machine- sold-story for mass consumption, this is about land dispossession, cold murder, natural resources stolen, humiliation,marginalization, discrimination, the apartheid wall, impunity, and on top of all that settlements inside Palestine Land. What is left after the partition of 1948 , after the other annexation of the 1967 war, after the construction of illegal settlements in areas purely Palestinians being razed for settlement use.
Hamas the political party in Gaza, the legal representative of Gaza should be recognize as such, If I like it or not my opinion does not change the situation in Gaza. Hamas like any other political party have followers and detractors.
We can not change the fact that Hamas or any Palestinian to have a valid claim for not accepting Israel, after all Israel was an entity imposed to the Palestinians in 1948. So, why should they recognized the entity that came to take their land?
So people, the story does not end with the youth of Gaza being known around the world, the truth should be known complete: Palestine needs her land back for the Palestinians, for us, for the ones crowded in 40 kilometers of land (1.5 millions) Gaza, and for the ones expelled, exiled, refugees around the world. Omar Karem, Gaza, Palestine
And when they Tear the Wall Down it will be the beginning when they dismantle all the settlements inside West Banks, When they return Jerusalem then we will be talking of Peace Process, before all that take place, Israel is playing just a game to take more land and keep the world occupied with religious intolerance and TV made up Terrorists, Karem said.
Omar Karem is a Palestinian living in Gaza, Palestine and contributor for Akashma News.
Public Denounce To Mr Hammad, the Minister of Interior in Gaza-I’m Palestinian, Am I a Criminal?
Posted on March 20, 2011 by Marivel Guzman in collaboration with Omar Karem
I m Omar Karem, I m Palestinian, I Live in Gaza. I m amateur photographer, writer and blogger, I was assaulted, beat and robed.
On March 18, 2011 co-owner of this Web Blog, Omar Karem was violently assaulted on the street in downtown Gaza, he was forced to accompanied some security men for ‘questioning!,’ but he was not taken to the police department office, but, to some rooms around the “Unknown Soldier Square, ” before than the incident occurred, he witnessed some other security officers approaching two foreign women and and Karem saw how the officers took the women’s cameras.
Karem said than he saw how two other women were being arrested.
Once in those ‘rooms’ the security officers took Karem’s suitcase and openned his laptop and starting looking at his private files.
Karem said he was kicked when asked, “Why are you hitting me, go hit the Israeli” they slammed his head on the wall and one of the officers told him, “You should thanks your God, we don’t brake your legs”.
They kept asking him his name, and one of them told him, “I know you, you work for Fatah”, other officers told him that he works for an American and Israeli Agenda. Every time he tried to talk his head was slammed on the wall. He saw another 6 people, in there, for two other women they took their cell phones, and told them to come back tomorrow for questioning.
All this is happen to regular citizens that take pictures for the marches going on in Gaza, hours later another event took place in the offices of Reuter.
GAZA, March 19 (Reuters) – Several armed men entered Reuters’ office in Gaza on Saturday, threatened employees with guns and took away a video camera, apparently after they spotted a reporter filming a demonstration from the building. The men struck one Reuters journalist on the arm with a metal bar and threatened to throw another out of the window of the high-rise block. The group, which numbered about 10 men, smashed a television set and other equipment before leaving.
The same group, several of whom were carrying pistols, also forcibly entered the nearby offices of U.S. broadcaster CNN and the Japanese station NHK. They seized videotape at NHK.
The men told Reuters journalists that they came from the internal security services of Hamas, the Islamist group which governs the Palestinian enclave, but they showed no documents.
The arrests and violence on citizens are going around the clock, more cameras are confiscated, more students beat and interrogated and the government still deny that the actions came from their security forces.
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“Initial information shows these men were not from the government. We have arrested some of them and we are going to interrogate them and see who they were acting for,” Interior Minister Fathi Hammad told reporters.
He added that he had told all security services to treat journalists with respect and prevent attacks on them.
An excerpt from the office of theInterior Minister Office
The protection of the citizens of Gaza is in the hands of the security of the government of Gaza, that I think were hired to protect us from violence coming from Israel or from anyone else. If the security forces are going to attack innocent people in Gaza, then we don’t need them, we have enough with Israel continuous ttacks and violence
Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen Adler said: “We are extremely concerned at this unwarranted assault on our staff and urge the authorities to ensure that journalists can work freely in Gaza.” The Reuters staff attacked were Palestinian. The violence flared shortly after uniformed Hamas security forces broke up a small rally which had been called to call for Palestinian unity and reconciliation between Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’s rival Fatah group.
Reuters had filmed a journalist from the Associated Press being detained at the protest. The man was later released, AP said.
According to some witness that were detained and released and which cameras and phones were confiscated, where told that they need a permission to take pictures. The strange is that dozens of journalists, photographers and other personal of News agencies in Gaza, hold a Press Permit and their cameras were confiscated and they were arrested also.
It was the second time in a week that media organizations have came under attack in Gaza. Witnesses said security forces beat photographers and cameramen on Tuesday as they tried to film another Palestinian unity rally in the city.
The Foreign Press Association, which represents journalists in both Israel and the Palestinian Territories, condemned the March 15 crackdown: “This is the latest in a string of chilling attacks on reporters in Gaza,” it said in a statement.
Hamas denied accusations that it was responsible for the violence, blaming the assault on “different youth groups”.
There are conflicts in the statements that were released by the information office of the Minister of Interior and what their own employees are saying in the blogs, and in facebook, and what it is happening in the streets. The attacks on journalist and in citizens with cameras has been more frequent since the Youth Of Gaza Broke the Silence in December 27, 2010, where some of their member were arrested, tortured and released.
No one doubt that there are groups in Gaza that tried to demoralize the movement of Unity, and also groups that want to defame Hamas, but also there is no doubt that they gone far in their attempts to “Silence the Cameras”, but they are forgetting something in this technological age that we live now, even Gaza with their 4 year old siege count with thousands of mobil phones equipped with cameras and many other recording devices, so in their attempt to keep control, in the last 3 months all they have done is to loose popularity in Gaza.
Two days ago on March 18 to be exact I tried all day to call my friend Omar Karem in Gaza, and someone keep answering the phone, in Arabic and all they will say, No Omar in here. After maybe the 10 try a voice asked; “Who are you”, so me having committed no crime and not knowing what whats going on with my friend, I respond I m Marivel. and he asked me, where you calling from, so I told him, I m calling from the United States and he hung up.
So by now, I m all curious, I called again and different person answer this time, Alo!..I said..Wek Omar? I m learning few sentences in Arab/english the new virtual language in the wires. He told me Omar is not here and he hung up.
So I called again and the same voice ask me, why you call Omar?..so by this time I m mad, I keep talking and checking the number I dialed and it is Omar’s number, I told him ..is not your business, please give me Omar. Who ever has Omar phone was in the street because I can hear cars honking in a busy street. He asked me if I speak arabic and told him no..
I asked him if he just got this number, because that was Omar number, for a moment I thought that Omar changed his number, this men told me, NO, there is no Omar in here..and he hung up..They answer many more times, but arabic speakers, finally after the 30 or 40 times re dials they turn the phone off, and is been off since then.
Omar Karem wants to denounce the actions of some security officers from the Minister of Interior that arrested him, beat him, threat him and took his personal belonging. Apparently without any authorization from the Minister of Interior. Mr. Karem, he is scare and do not want to present himself in the offices of the police to denounce the crime, for obvious reason. He is making a public denounce and demand the Minister of Interior to persecute these rogue officers and an apology and the return of his personal computer, mobil phone, passport and other important items that were in his suit case.
If the minister of interior Mr Fathi Hammad is taking responsibility for “other groups” that vandalize the offices of Reuter, CNN and the Japanese Outlet News NHK. The office of Mr Hammad should take responsibility for their security officers that have been harassing the citizens of Gaza and confiscating their cameras and phones.
Omar Karem is mad and frighten, he scare to walk the streets of Gaza. I would if I was him. I hope that when I visit Gaza, Palestine I don’t need to make any public complaints. I want to enjoy Gaza and take pictures, and talk to her people, without being harassed by “no one”.
I wonder if it is a crime to take pictures in Gaza? or Do you need a special permit to take pictures and upload them to the different social networks in the world? Also it is a crime to like Hamas, or to like Fatah, or AFLP? What ever the answer I hope Mr. Hammad give a respond to the thousands of Gaza Citizens that more and more are showing their like and dislikes in the streets of Gaza, demonstrating with permits and without permits. All they are asking is Palestine as One Nation.
and I know this story is not the only in Gaza and West Bank.
Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza, surprise visit?!
Posted On March 17, 2011 by Akashma Online News
By Marivel Guzman in Collaboration with Omar Karem
The situation in Gaza is looking hazily, after the set back for the people on March 15 for Reconciliation, and the steeps attacks from Israel, and Hamas the poorly handling of the situation on the date of March 15 that ended with arrests, broken bones and anger between the people, the mood is between sadness and disappointment.
The March 15 Date was sought from the youth and the most actives Palestinians that were hoping to mend the differences between the two factions; Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in West Bank. Neither of them raised to the occasion.
There are reports that Mahoumud Abbas the representative of the PA in West Bank and Internationally recognized figure for Palestine, will be visiting the besieged Gaza Strip. This came as a surprise for some that heard the news with disbelieve, they are afraid that Mahoumud Abbas will bring too much of his security forces and they engage in a violent clashes as have been seen in the past with many casualties from both sides.
Palestinian Authority is calling for September Elections, but being Gaza in a complete siege, the chances of wining any seats are slim, because Hamas is not allowed to travel to West Bank to make any kind of Political Campaign. We must wait to see what this visit will bring for Gaza. Besides being Hamas designated “Terrorist Organization” they will be no finance support for the campaign as it was in 2007, which Hamas run with the blessings of Israel and the US, no one understand why after winning the elections, US put Hamas in the “terrorist list”, worth to mention that the US has changed the definition of terrorism.
We hope that Israel does not use this encounter as a excuse to send its “Groups” to stir violence, it is known in Palestine that there are certain groups financed by Israel to send rockets to Israel and to charade violence acts, used them always very strategically to either get International support or to trash Hamas or PA.
The future of Gaza and West Bank is at Odds, after the first attempt of the people to bring their leaders to reconcile their differences and work as one force. The youth of Gaza and West Bank won’t lose the hope and still planing more marches to bring their leaders to work together for a United Palestine.
A question remain; Will Abbas be allowed to cross the Eretz Crossing, between West Bank and Gaza, but controlled by Israel, or he will be forced to travel out from Jordan and take a plane to Egypt? Lucky him, that Egyptian authorities just lift the ban for Palestinians to travel across their territory to cross to Gaza.
With all the turmoil in Gaza, the continuous attacks from Israel, and the sequels of the Egyptian Revolution where the basic products double in prices, the population is not in a position to prepare a welcome party.
Unity March 15 a date to remember
Posted on March 15, 2011 by Omar Karem, from Gaza, edited by Marivel Guzman
Opinion
Gaza City, photo by Omar Karem
Thanks to all Palestinians that turned out today for the great March 15 March that markes the beginning to demand for a united Palestine.
The protesters were oppressed by the government forces. Was a little set back but the battle is not lost.
The youth, the women, the men, came in big numbers to demand unity and they will come out again; tomorrow, next week, until unity is achieved.
Battles are not easy to win said Leila Khaled, the Palestinian heroine that fought with Yosef Arafat during the 70s. She will tell you is not easy.
Today was a great day for Palestine, no matter what the outcome, it is a change, for first time lots of women are taking charge of the affairs of their land. Thousands of women were mixed with the crowd of men.
They know they must not be afraid, they are all Palestinians. Hamas, AFLP,FATAH, every one no matter the party they follow, they are all Palestinians, we are all Palestinians.
One Palestine Nation united to fight against the common enemy, ‘The Occupier’, ‘The IOF’ ,’Zionism’,’Ignorance’,’Division,’ those are the real enemies of the people.
Gaza City, photo by Omar Karem
Today the turn of events are only a show of the government to exercise power over the people, “Intimidation won’t work with us,” said a Palestinian, “We are feed up with Israel, even without uniform we know them, they can beat us and incarcerated us, but we wont stop,” he said.
They (Palestinian police) need to stop and unite with us. This fight is not against our government, it is against the division.
The security forces of Gaza are shooting to the air, shooting to the feet of the crowd. The government is afraid, of course they are afraid. Every government should be afraid of its people not the other way around. They need to prove themselves worthy to stay in power and if they have not done it the people is speaking loudly and demonstrating in the street and demanding unity.
It is not going to be easy for Hamas or the PA to contain the discontent because now we know that the power is with ourselves. If tomorrow, we all come to the streets, they won’t be enough bullets, or sticks to scare us. Today we celebrate that we can gather together, I don’t see it as a defeat to the people, No..it is a lesson, for us, for the government, to take notice that the actions are all recorded in history in our land. We must continue to work together to bring us as one Nation, we won’t stop.
We Palestinians are resolved to bring Palestine Unity.
“To really respond to the practices of the occupation, there should be unity behind the leadership that can address the world with one voice, to once and for all end the occupation and establish a Palestinian State as a strategic option for peace” – Issam Samour-Coordinator of Christian Relieve in Gaza, Palestine
The day’s events both exposed Palestinian divisions and underscored the popular desire for political reconciliation between Gaza, controlled by Hamas, and the West Bank, controlled by the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas amd his Fatah party. -The New York Times
Naji Shurrab, a political science professor at Al Azhar University in Gaza, which is unofficially affiliated with Fatah, said on Tuesday that ending the Fatah-Hamas split was beyond the capacity of the youths to correct. “The division is like cancer; the later you are in treating it, the more it spreads,” he said. –New York Times
The main stream media is ready to blame the set backs of the youth of Palestine on the people. They are mute when Israel is bombing our cities or killing us but as soon as the occasion arise they are ready to make headlines. We should ignore them all along, until they bring us the Truth.
We could feel the joy in the last few days in Palestine, all the videos that we shot in Palestine, people in the streets talking about March 15, Unity Day, Reconciliation day. It euphoria was overwhelming, the talks of a nation ready to emerge.
The people is what it make the nation not the leaders. Palestine is One, One land. The Holy Land is Only one. “We the People” make it.
Please stop the fights, come with us, all the fathers, and sons, that work for the respective governments, see us we are you, you are us. We are Palestine.
Palestinian youth at the Unity March photo by Omar Karem
Abu Yazan and other youth leaders, however, insist that unity is required to effectively resist the occupation and that political reform would significantly improve quality of life in the meantime. The slogan for the March 15 event is “End the division. One people against zionism.”
Ali Abdul Bari, a 24-year-old leader of Esha (Wake Up), a liberal, secular group devoted to promoting human rights, tells a story to illustrate just how deep the divide is. His group posted a sign demanding elections near the destroyed Palestinian Parliament building in downtown Gaza City. It was removed by Hamas 90 minutes later, despite the permit they had obtained. Later, many group members were interrogated or had their backgrounds checked. Pam Bailey
We must have high hopes that this movement wont stop, that today was a minor set back, but tomorrow a new day will come, bringing hopes. Specially that we will be commemorating Rachel Corrie day.
Come tomorrow March 16 to the streets to remember her memory, her martyrdom, we will celebrate her life, praise her memory for her sacrifice to our land.
Rachel Corrie
Please come with no banners, no flags, no colors, security forces please do not give bad image to the world. Do not copy the practices of Israel, we are tired of repression and oppression. Support us, in the new Palestine Nation that we all try to build.
Tomorrow is a new day, to rectify the errors, to take lessons of the past. Inshallah
March 15: Palestinian Youth Call for Unify under One Nation, without colors, only by their flag colors
Posted on March 14 by Marivel Guzman in collaboration with Omar Karem
Palestine(Akashma Web Blogs)Gaza one of the oldest districts in Palestine,with 62 Villages and Cities, on the Mediterranean Riviera, facing the sea if you sail in an straight line on the Mediterranean sea you can get to Crete, Cypress, Turkey, Egypt,Libya, Even to the south of Italy then why Palestinians are force to beg to the government of Egypt to let in to Gaza as it is happening in this moments, where thousands of Palestinians are stranded in various airports and main cities around the world, because the New Military Government in Egypt of Omar Suleiman does not allow them to set foot in Egypt territory, and the Palestinians that want to leave Gaza, go through a tedious procedure starting with their own government, where they need to pay a fee to get into a list to be permitted to leave Gaza, then once they cross to Rafah Egypt in the Egyptian side they wait another 5 to 10 hours, to be return back to Gaza without a valid reason what so ever. Some Palestinians are allowed to leave only if they have a Visa and ticket ready to leave the country, or some few cases of patients that cross for treatment to a specific clinics in Egypt. They are some talks about lifting the ban, but nothing concrete yet.
On the other side of Palestine where close to 8 millions of Palestinians live in the various cities and refugees camps, between hundreds of Illegal “Settlements” and “Outpost” surrounded by heavy military personal, a 25 feet wall and dozens of incorporated check points and road blocks, illegal detentions and targeting assassinations, that make their every day life impossible, without counting with the shortage of drinking water, lack of jobs, and a Unite government that oversee the necessities of their citizens.
Since Israel withdrew from Gaza on 2005, the situation in Palestine have gone from bad to worse, the physical division that separate Palestine making it into two different entities, at least that is what Israel have force them to be, and for the last 4 years seems that Palestinians living West Bank and Gaza have fallen into Israel Game.
The situation was looking too gray for the future of Palestine until a group called “Gaza Youth Brake the Silence” that in December 2010 exposed the conditions of the besieged Gaza to the world. This group call for the Unity of all Palestine and this movement started to grow to a magnitude that even Israel was taken by surprise.
In matter of days all the Outlets News of the world took notice of this group and their Manifesto was widely spread across the Internet, and their facebook group grew by the minutes in matter of days they have more than 12,000 members.
They have called for the Unity of the political parties, the people, the ideas to be Palestine One Nation, they are inviting all Palestine to raise their voice at unison, converging their ideas for the common good of Palestinians, not rule by Fatah, or Hamas, not intended for Gaza or West Bank but for Palestine.
Palestinians who carried on their shoulders all the sins of history and jammed events that Promoted a new generation resolutely legacy accumulated over decades in the both sides of Palestine; West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And from Gaza begins its new launch iniciative, said he wished to rectify the deficit of the older generation of parents and the errors committed at the height of the conflict between the sworn brotherhood of power.
The youth of Gaza are in their twenties, they dress sporty, they are University Students, they are the facebook activist, the twitters, youtubers, this generation that want to change the old ideas, they want a new Palestine without the rigor of religion, without the stamp of millitary flavor, their envision a new Palestine United by their flag, their Land, culture and her people, they want to forget about the political parties that have damage so much the reputation of Palestine.
The fight for the power, the hold of the chair, all the political and military mix that did not help Palestine to be United as a Nation fighting for a common enemy the Occupier, the Neo-Colonizer Israel that for 62 years sow the terrain to her convenience.
Israel divided the land in two diametrical entities that it made them believe that they were two people living in two distance lands. West Bank, Palestine dislike for long time Gaza People, they saw them for some time as intruders that came to take their jobs. In the Gaza Strip the situation did not go fine either, they were forced to choose and pick their candidates when the physical division made impossible the central government of Palestine to take care of the affairs of Gaza.
Gaza was forcefully neglected to the point that new factions were formed to filled the vacuum left by the Palestinian Authority, even when Yasser Arafat the revered men in Palestine, was imprisoned in his Rammallah compound, he could not ever serve his closest citizens, under the watch of the whole world. He managed the affairs of the nation from the headquarters of the PA in Ramallah, but Gaza was too far to be served or help. During those years Israel was brewing the fate of Gaza and the separation from Palestine. For almost 8 years and since Israel withdrew her army and dismantle the settlements from Gaza, the Strip is being deteriorating under a siege and a bigger negglect, but this time by the whole world that being witness of the situation and done nothing about it.The activist of the world have work tirelessly to show the raw truth to the world, and now the youth of Palestine is taking the lead.
Now all the lies are exposed, the internal fights need to settled, the youth of Gaza is forcing the old leaders to rethink their role, to lead Palestine as a Nation and come as one voice. They created a big plataform where all the dissidents voices can be heard and the obsolete policies and old practices be clean away.
They said: “We have moved more than a month to work on the ground and left the “Facebook” virtual world for the revolution to end the division and we started working on a campaign of house to house of Rafah to Beit Hanoun and in all parts of the West Bank to translate the Revolution to the ground in all parts of home.”March 15 activists speaking on their behalf and they visited the Office in Gaza.
Revolution Profile: Mohamed Sheikh Yusuf, Youth March 15 for the most we have to work to restore national unity and if we are not united Palestine is lost and her youth will be lost, and the old Palestinian people should carry the idea of the Palestinian flag without the other no one says, “To continued to divide the revolution, to allow for all to wrap around and the most inspirational to continue as young people, we relied on personal spending for this revolution, saying it was a revolution to add personal expense to the contributions of activists, saying sarcastically that the revolution of this kind does not need of funding.
Prosecutions and arrests for police officer and a Rose:
Through the process of build-up and preparation for the start of a revolution young Shaykh Yusuf: We have been prosecuted and there has been arrests and booking, our computer hardware and “Laptop” being taken by our own security services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but we are saying that young people have decided to give a rose for each element of police Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza during the first hour of the demonstrations, saying, “We get young men in a spontaneous march in the Gaza Strip days before the police and shouted to the societies of young people and police together to end the division, stressing that the youth revolution of the March that we have today we will distribute 1000 rose to the elements of the police.”
Legitimacy belongs to the Palestinians wherever they are:
Sheikh Yusuf saying: “Our response to Palestinian organizations, that he would not only represents the youth and young people will not be able to impose one view, but the view of all Palestinian Society.
Joseph another youth said: that the field will not allow any party whatsoever, or any one that tries to impose party color or class, because the field will not only receives a campaign of the Palestinian flag and raise the slogan of the people wants to end the division and a single emblem of the Palestinian people at this point.
“We will not allow anyone to Tahir March 15, in the interest of partisan or institutional and that it is not only the legitimacy of the field.”
Sheikh Yusuf called on all Palestinian to go on March 15, raising the Palestinian flag only.
He said: We call on Hamas, we also call for Fatah and other factions to get off wearing the Palestinian dress and the Palestinian flag and get free societies in this day of the party and our only goal during this phase is to protect the national project and protect the blood of the martyrs and call for unity, it is a call for great leaders Yasser Arafat and Khalil al-Wazir Ahmed Yassin, Abu Ali Mustafa, George Habash, Shakaki and decided that the young Palestinian leaders invited to meet the bone and split ends and restores unity to strengthen the Palestinian unified.
Sheikh Yusuf said the most important success of the revolution until the moment is to break the deadlock and break the barrier of fear and activation of the silent majority and people express their views and rights of what is going on.
And about gathering places, said Joseph Nouri, a militant revolution Onalamancn March 15 are:
In the central Gaza Strip, the crowd will be in the field of the Unknown Soldier at 12 noon.
West Bank crowd in the central Manara Square in Ramallah
For the rest of the areas in the West Bank, which will not be able to reach the lighthouse in Ramallah, the crowd will be in Bethlehem Church of the Nativity in Jenin in the field of the Jenin Martyrs. It will also be in the crowd in front of the Palestinian diaspora Palestinian embassies or offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Joseph Nouri said that the call would be to sit in the same places of the crowd, unless they decided that the field is saying to let the field decide.
As for the organization of the crowd and fields, “said Nouri, said the idea began by inviting youth groups to the crowd after crowd sleep youth work to organize the crowds and space management, explaining that he had been set up committees to the system of committees flags and committees supporting and unifying slogans stressing that young people have all the preparations for the management of post-crowd.
The First Bag of Cement Enters the Gaza Strip
Posted on March 08, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
(Gaza, Palestine) The first bag of cement enters the Gaza Strip.
A source said at The Palestinian Information Center at the Rafah crossing informing that the multinational delegation arrived Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, and was greeted by a delegation of the State Committee to break the siege.
He stressed that the delegation had brought with them a bag of cement as a sign of the symbolic importance of breaking the blockade and the entry of construction materials to rebuild Gaza Strip, which was partially destroyed by the Israeli assault ” Cast Lead ” in 2009. The destruction Against the beleaguered sector, that for more than 2 years and 7 months is been maintain with a almost complete blockade for products of daily consume, food, gas, and very important Medicine, Spare Medical Parts of Medical Equipment and Construction Materials which Israel has banned completely from Gaza.
For its part, a spokesman for the International Coalition, Ahmed secured the Assi said that the delegation, which consists of two Egyptians, two Irish, two Britons and two Americans, two Greeks and Hungarians entered the Gaza Strip after Egyptian authorities have allowed to enter, a sign of political change in Egypt in this regard, and blocking the access of solidarity delegations to Gaza before the fall of Hosni Mubarak
The spokesman of the delegation of the “international coalition” has confirmed that his delegation’s visit comes in solidarity with the people of Gaza and its inhabitants and to focus on the world and our rejection of the waiver request embargo noting that the Egyptian delegation participated in the Egyptian revolution.
This is a good sign of the changes, but farther from the reality in the ground, Gaza population still is unable to travel out of Egypt as a normal citizens, the situation still tense in the Border of Rafah, long lines of Palestinians trying to travel out of Egypt are forced to wait long hours just to be return back to Gaza with no explanations other that security reasons.
Still Palestinians are stranded in airports around the world trying to go back to Gaza, as Egypt new government has denied them the right to cross Egypt to enter their homeland.
The Euphoria and expectation of the March 15 Date have make us forget that Israel still control the life of Palestinians inside Gaza and West Bank, and have continue with the aerial attacks in Gaza and violently dispersing the peaceful demonstrations in West Bank and Jerusalem.
We want to be positive and push the International Community to take part in the global awareness for Truth and transparency on the Occupied Territories. And dismantle the propaganda that have changed the perception of the violence against Palestinians.
This bag of cement is the first one of many that will enter Gaza in the next few weeks, thanks to the campaign organized by Tahi 4 Gaza
Since the problems started in Egypt, the prices of cement and gravel have doubled — one ton of cement cost US$140 last week. Today, I bought a ton for $296,” said Ashraf Al Aloul, a driver for an international NGO, one of thousands of Gazans in the process of building a home.
Laila Khaled-Palestinian Resistance Hero-March 8 Internation Woman’s Day
Posted on March 8, 2011 by Marivel Guzman
from original posted by Thee *FREE ARAB VOICE* February 2, 1999
Leila Khaled (also Layla Khalid), long-time activist and Central Committee member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was born on April 9, 1944 in Haifa, Palestine. Her family left Haifa as refugees to Lebanon on April 13 1948, just before the State of Israel was established
In this issue of the Free Arab Voice we interview Laila Khaled.
Laila Khaled is a Palestinian Arab woman, an activist, fighter, and a leader that has become now a familiar part of the Palestinian psyche. She turned almost overnight from another refugee in Lebanon into an unfurled Palestinian flag. Unlike others who folded their flags though, she remains as true to the faith today as when she was fifteen, only smarter. Understanding what she has to say is tantamount to understanding what many Palestinians have to say.
We will not rain on her parade. She will introduce herself by herself.
[This interview was conducted for the Free Arab Voice (FAV) by Ibrahim Alloush ].
Introduction:
FAV: Welcome Laila Khaled. Would you like in the beginning to introduce us briefly to yourself: your position in the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), the Palestinian Woman’s Union, and the Palestinian revolution?
Laila: I’m a Palestinian woman of Lebanese origin, my belonging is Arab, and hence my belonging is Palestinian. I joined the Arab Nationalist Movement early, early with respect to me, cause I was barely 15 years old then.
I moved to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine since its inception in 1967, and continue to be with them until today.
I was a member of the Union of Palestinian students, in the Administrative Committee, when I was still a student in the American University of Beirut in 1963. In 1974, I became a member in the General Secretariat of the Palestinian Woman’s Union. Also I’ve been a delegate in the Palestinian National Council [parliament] since 1979. FAV: What’s your official position in the PFLP?
Laila: I’m a member in the Leadership Council of the PFLP. “Who Are the Palestinians?”:
FAV: We’re not going to well long on that military operation you partook in, and which drew fame and glory. We have surpassed that stage in a sense. We’re in a different stage now, perhaps even at your own personal level. Would you give us a quick glimpse though about that operation so our younger readers may get an idea about what happened then? When exactly, and what was your role in it?
Laila: It was one of the operations undertaken by the PFLP to hijack airplanes. I was the first woman to participate in one, but the PFLP had done a few before. One of those was the hijacking of an El Al flight from Rome to Algeria. The PFLP took this path under the motto of “Going after the Enemy Everywhere”, as one of the tactics or phases of the armed struggle. The main goal behind these operations was to pose a big question to the world: who are the Palestinians? At the time Palestinians were being treated merely as refugees who may need humanitarian aid. So we got showered with tents, UNRWA programs, and so forth!
The other goal behind these operations was to release our political prisoners from “Israeli” jails. From 1968 until 1970, the PFLP performed operations abroad to achieve those two goals. But having posed the question of who are the Palestinians, the answer was not in the final analysis to be answered by the operations themselves but by the Palestinian revolution. There was now a big commotion. People all over the world were asking who those were who were hijacking airplanes and what they wanted.
Regarding the second objective of releasing prisoners, we succeeded in that respect partially. Had we had a liberated base from whence we could have held planes and passengers, and from whence we could have exchanged and negotiated, we could have succeeded much more. The Arab regimes had a clear position of not supporting us, and of compromising us as needed to white wash any affiliation with us.
I participated in two of these operations. One was the hijacking a TWA that Isaac Rabin was scheduled to be on. At the time he was the “Israeli” Ambassador in the U.S. That flight was supposed to go through Rome. We boarded the plane there, and re-directed the plane to Damascus, Syria. Unfortunately however, Rabin was not on board!
FAV: When was this?
Laila: This was in August 1969.
FAV: What happened after you came to Damascus?
Laila: When we came to Damascus, the airport we landed in was still not in use so we inaugurated it. We blew up the cockpit.
FAV: None of the passengers were hurt though!
Laila: No, no, not at all! That was made very clear throughout. We had strict directives not to hurt any passengers or members of the crew at all. Only in the case of clear self-defense, we were told, will you repel anyone who attacks you.
FAV: So you released the passengers upon arrival to Damascus?
Laila: Immediately. We told them to get off calmly, and showed them how to do it safely. Then we handed ourselves over to the authorities. We said we admit having done this, and would like to tell you why we did what we did.
FAV: The second operation you took part in?
Laila: The second one was an El Al plane. Now that’s a different story because it’s an El Al! An “Israeli” thing per se! That flight was carrying Ahron Yarev, the head of “Israeli” Military Intelligence at the time. We boarded that flight in Amesterdam. It was supposed to be headed to New York, but we were going to turn it back east. We had just inaugurated an airport near Amman, Jordan, that became known as the Airport of the Revolution where we had held three planes there already, and we were going to bring our El Al plane there too. But the pilot took us to London instead, and our comrade from Nicaragua, Patrick Aurguillo, was killed there.
FAV: What went wrong?
Laila: What went wrong was that we were to be four doing this, but only two of us, Patrick and me, managed to get on board. Because Yarev had bodyguards too we simply got outnumbered and outgunned. The route the plane took was not the one we thought they would. Landing in London was totally unexpected. We bet that they won’t come near us. I was in charge of the operation and had two hand grenades. I didn’t think they would ever dare to come near me, but it seems that “Israelis” think lightly of dying as well.
They attacked the two of us, and managed to kill Patrick savagely. I wasn’t shot, but tackled and beaten. Media reports later indicated that the body of the plane was riddled with eighty bullet holes. Patrick had one handgun and I had two grenades, so guess who was doing most of the shooting?
FAV: Then?
Laila: The Brits took me. The very following day however a Palestinian guy from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, hijacked a BOAC plane to Beirut because he couldn’t handle the thought of me getting arrested. He requested to talk to the PFLP when he got to Beirut International Airport, and asked them where he should go with the plane. The pilot didn’t know how to get to the Airport of the Revolution because it wasn’t in the official charts. So, he was given directions. Then I was released in exchange, along with a couple of other comrades, after 28 days in custody. All this also raised the political question worldwide of who we were and what we sought.
A Critical Evaluation:
FAV: How do you respond to those who say that this particular type of operations did not help out very much, but had in fact hurt the Palestinian cause? Sure we got the attention of the world, but it was perhaps negative attention, the kind that’s not very good for us?
Laila: There’s an intrinsic difference between armed struggle as one of the main strategies to overcome the enemy, and these transient tactics which we employed only during a very brief period. On the internal Palestinian level, other groups condemned our earlier tactics only to end up adopting them after we abandoned them totally in 1970, as Fatah did with the “Black September” organization! So these were short-run tactical measures that can and should easily be given up if needed.
Anyway, hijacking planes was not the only type of overseas operations we engaged in. In 1972 for example, the PFLP hit the oil tanker Coral Sea which was clandestinely carrying Arab oil & gas (butane), from one of the Gulf states, to “Israel”. It took about a year of careful surveillance and planning to ascertain the route and method by which Arab oil went to “Israel”. But nobody likes to talk about this.
FAV: Where did this happen?
Laila: The Red Sea. Let me also add here that this operation cost “Israel” a great deal in terms of maintaining tight security. From that point on, every tanker that went out to sea had to have military escort, by planes sometimes. Protecting their energy supplies became a real pain.
FAV: So do you call now for resuming this type of operations?
Laila: Now circumstances are different. Every act has to serve a political end. Hijacking airplanes is NOT in our best interest today. Anyway, we in the PFLP totally quit that after the Central Committee took a resolution to that effect in 1970. In this regard I would like to mention, with great admiration and respect, the contributions of the martyr Wadi3 Haddad, who is also one of the founders of the Arab Nationalist Movement. I owe this man most for having taught me how to love Palestine.
FAV: But you continue to be today for the continuation of the armed struggle to liberate Palestine?
Laila: There is a simple and clear formula that I follow which doesn’t require much theorizing. Since there is still today an enemy that raped and cast us out of our land, there is no language to communicate with him but that which he understands best. He talks the language of terror, so we have a legitimate right to resist. History, reality, and the whole world concede the people’s right to resist occupation. That’s all there’s to it.
The Calculus of War and Peace:
FAV: Some say Arafat obtained more for the Palestinian people, with his readiness to condemn and cooperate against Palestinian “terrorism”, than what we have obtained from decades of operations which cost us tens of thousands of martyrs, injured, prisoners, not to mention international public opinion. How would you respond to that?
Laila: Arafat lost and made us lose with him.
FAV: How come? Some say he obtained a small piece that could later become the nucleus of a Palestinian state? Can’t this become a foothold from whence we may liberate the rest? Didn’t he bring back about forty thousand Palestinians with him from Tunisia?
Laila: Arafat as the epitome of a stratum of leaders of the Palestinian movement that embraces the same way of thinking, has chosen to favor its personal interests over those of the people. Consequently they deemed their own return to Palestine, under humiliating conditions, synonymous with the “right of return”.
We have in Palestine today about three million Palestinians. These have conducted one of the greatest uprisings in the world. Their problem was never the right of return for Arafat and a small group with him. Our problem has always been that we are a people that have had its land occupied and that was forcibly evicted from that land.
The Zionists built their state on our land. Our problem can be summarized in two points:
1) sovereignty over the land,
2) the return of refugees.
This is the essence of the Palestinian problem. Now let’s see what Arafat did. Arafat got the legitimacy to speak for Palestinians from the blood of our martyrs, and from our suffering. He got legitimacy because he adopted initially the strategy of armed struggle. Then he stopped halfway. When this stratum got some perks and privileges, they balked on the notion of resistance. Our leadership was spoiled into submission, among other things. They liked hotels, travel, official receptions at their honor and what have you too much. But at the same time they were selling their own selves out.
Those selling themselves out can’t be said to be “obtaining” anything for their people, can they now? It’s true that “Israel” re-deployed its forces in this alleged solution. But even before that was done, Arafat had to sign on to the enemy’s right to exist on our land. That is a negation of the all the precepts of Palestinian struggle.
The PFLP’s Stand on the Existence of “Israel”:
FAV: But some claim that the PFLP has shifted, and is no longer totally opposed to the principle of “Israel’s” right to exist if that meant a sovereign Palestinian mini-state on the side. Is that true?
Laila: Let’s judge the PFLP on the basis of its documents, and I’m part of the PFLP. When we say that we agreed to the program of Palestinian national consensus:
1) the right of return,
2) self-determination, and
3)The Palestinian state. That means a Palestinian state on the land occupied in 1967, not Haifa. But here are our documents, and our strategy, and here’s the Palestinian National Charter that Arafat compromised. They all talk of liberating Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
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FAV: So this is what the PFLP remains formally committed to today?
Laila: Of course. We haven’t changed. We believe in liberation in stages, but we believe in our historical right to all of Palestine as well.
Laila Khaled Prevented from Flying in December to the Palestinian Conference in Damascus:
FAV: With respect to the Palestinian National Charter, there were reports that you were on a plane headed from Amman to Damascus earlier in December 1998, when you were asked to get off the plane right before take-off by Jordanian authorities.
What happened there?
Did they get nightmares from the mere thought of Laila Khaled on a plane?
Was it a matter of flashbacks from the sixties or is it more complicated than that?
Laila: I still travel by airplane by the way : ) : ) I don’t frighten anyone there. I was actually headed for Beirut, not Damascus, to participate in the Second Arab meeting for the post-Peking Women’s conference. No body told me why I was not allowed to fly that day, but I think they expected me to be going to the Palestinian opposition meeting in Damascus that convened on the 12th of December to re-endorse the Palestinian National Charter.
But in fact the real reason is Wye River, and the security deals that took place behind the scenes between the security apparatuses in Jordan and “Israel”. Laila Khaled is a Palestinian activist, and for her to travel and express her views here and there just doesn’t fly very well with the authorities. So they harass me as a member in the Palestinian opposition, not as an individual. But eventually, I traveled again later on, and nobody stopped me
FAV: So what if they thought you were going to participate in the opposition conference in Damascus? What’s their beef?
Laila: I wasn’t the only one prevented from going to Damascus last December. All the delegates headed to that opposition Conference from Jordan were intercepted and turned back. Specifically, 53 delegates were turned back. I left several days before the conference date because I was going to attend another in Beirut, then go to the conference in Damascus.
FAV: But why? What’s the point of preventing you and those people from attending the conference in Damascus?
Laila: The point as expressed rather comically by the Jordanian Minister of the Interior, Nayef al Qadi, was that those 53 delegates were going to Syria to say stuff that was “contrary to the security of Jordan”.
The response to that is straight forward:
The Palestinian opposition was simply going there to discuss its position and options after Arafat went ahead with the annulment of the Palestinian National Charter. That’s all. But let’s not forget I live in a state that has signed an agreement with “Israel” in Wadi Arabah. This agreement, or maybe one of its secret appendices, entailed that the opposition be oppressed, as long as that is done with all the “democratic means” available to the system!
[We will later go back and discuss in depth with Laila Khaled’s the Peking Woman’s Conference and her position on the question of Woman’s Liberation. There’s about 30 minutes of tape here that FAV will reproduce separately due to the extreme importance and the independent nature of that subject- FAV].
Future Strategies for Palestinian Action:
FAV The position you occupy now Laila Khaled in the Palestinian memory and the Palestinian conscience forces us to pose all the hardest questions to you. The Palestinian activism has reached a predicament at this point as is evident.
Can we say that the old forms of struggle have fallen?
Is there a need for new forms to replace them? If so, what are some of the features of these new forms? In short what is a good strategy for Palestinian action for the coming period?
What is to be done? Whence do we begin?
Laila: You posed the question of whence do we begin, so let me say here that we’re not starting out from zero. Every time a new leadership arrives at the scene, it doesn’t study the phase preceding it, and assumes that history began with it. Since the Balfour Declaration in 1917, we’ve had a series of uprisings and leaders in Palestine, culminating in a major armed revolt under the leadership of the Qassam in 1936.
Then there was Abdul-Qader al Husseini in 1948, then el Hajj Amin, and in the sixties the present PLO leadership emerged. We need to study therefore our history and draw hard lessons as much as we need to thoroughly evaluate the previous phase of the Palestinian struggle.
We may have entered a new phase though, characterized by a political settlement in favor of the enemy. The cornerstones of Palestinian activism have been upturned. The precept that the Zionist enemy is occupying our land has been clouded with false rhetoric about peace. The notion of armed struggle has been distorted as well by those who signed shameful agreements, like Arafat and his group.
We have to study thus the previous phase in a comprehensive and careful manner. We have to examine where we hit and where we missed. The great achievement the Palestinian people has perhaps been the Palestinian national identity. We learned how to resist, but the strategies of action now will have to be different from the ones we adopted before. The notion of armed struggle itself though remains necessarily constant because this enemy has not changed its nature.
This enemy does not seek peace. It is still racist, expansionist, and violent.
FAV: What is it that should change then?
Laila: Only the mechanisms have to change, not the objectives. The strategy of armed struggle has to carry on from one generation to the next. It has to remain a historical struggle on all fronts. The military front is not currently open, while the usual measures like demolishing homes, confiscating land, arresting activists, air raiding south Lebanon, and killing civilians continue. We still have Palestinian and Lebanese funerals daily. This means the enemy does not understand any other language.
FAV: This is regarding the objectives of the Palestinian action. How do we get there?
Laila: The objectives of the PLO have not been achieved, including the right of return, self-determination, and the Palestinian state. Some say we still have to uphold those betrayed objectives, and I’m one of those. The problem now is that this [Palestinian] opposition, which is made up of Islamic, nationalist, and leftist components IS NOT UNITED IN ONE PROGRAM OF ACTION.
We don’t have to unite them ideologically. They do have to find a way however to deal jointly with the two most important current issues of Palestinian struggle:
First, how to confront and escalate the fight against the occupation, and second how to tackle the contradiction with the limited self-rule authority of Arafat whose main task is to provide security for the occupation, and to oppress Palestinians. We can’t adopt the same approach in dealing with the two. I don’t think twice about the legitimacy of resisting the occupation by all means necessary.
FAV: How do you respond to people like Edward Said and Azmi Bshara who insinuate sometimes that we need new approaches to Palestinian activism, for example by opening up Palestinian organizations to “Israelis” who recognize “Israel’s” right to exist, yet support Palestinian rights!
Laila: We have to look at the tasks of every concentration of Palestinians in the light of its own circumstances. We have a goal that unites us all, which is to liberate Palestine. But there’s about a million Palestinians right now living in the land occupied in 1948. Those will have tasks that are different from the ones to be addressed by the Palestinians of Lebanon.
In the former, the Palestinian struggle focuses on removing the discrimination they suffer under “Israel”. But in Rou7ah and Um Es-sa7ali when “Israelis” tried to confiscate more land and to demolish homes a while back, the reaction of the Palestinians of 1948 made the Shin Bet report to the “Israeli” government that after fifty years of “Israeli” rule, nationalist feelings among the Arabs of “Israel”, as they call them, are on the rise.
It’s true there are a couple there that call themselves “Israelis”, but the Palestinians of 1948 have overall preserved their Palestinian Arab national identity. Within the framework of the overall objective, these people have the local objective of achieving equality before the law in “Israel”…
FAV: But we can’t generalize the tasks of the Palestinians of 1948 to other Palestinians?
Laila: Yes, that part of our people will have different local objectives because it has different local circumstances. We are a dispersed people you know. Those in the West Bank and Gaza will have different tasks as well.
FAV: So the idea of including “Israelis” in our struggle applies only to the Palestinians of 1948, right?
Laila: No, no, no! Neither including nor excluding, no! I’m talking about something totally different. I’m talking about a relevant Palestinian program for action. I said there are general Palestinian objectives for all Palestinians, and then there are particular Palestinian objectives specific to the local circumstances for each concentration of Palestinians. For example, what is right now the main concern of a Palestinian in Lebanon who is not allowed to work? S/He wants to make a living. But even s/he is trying to observe the general objective of preserving his Palestinian national identity.
He remains steadfast in the refugee camp as a Palestinian under very harsh conditions. His tasks however will have to be different from those of a Palestinian in Gaza, who has to deal with persecution by Arafat’s PNA, and the Zionist occupation. Local strategies have to be decided locally, not imposed from without. There has to be coordination though between the local parts so each complements the other.
FAV: But where do the “Israelis” who allegedly support our rights fit into all this? Some say that our main task on the general level now should be to intensify our efforts amongst Americans and “Israelis”. How do you respond to that?
Laila: Look, there are hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in North America. The main task of that group is to publicize the Palestinian cause and win support. They also have the additional task of not forgetting, and letting their kids forget who they are and where they came from.
They should think about coming back in the long-run. It’s high-time we learned from our enemies, isn’t it? But let’s also not forget here that this is part of the overall struggle. The children of the West and Gaza didn’t peddle theories about winning over the West in the uprising. They peddled stones. And they won the support of the world nevertheless. The essential thing is to not forget that the things that created the conflict with Zionists are still there. They’re not gone. The land is still occupied and the people are still dispersed.
That’s why we revolted. These agreements are like some ash over the coals. Pour a little gasoline and we revolt again. The gasoline is how to make our local tasks complement each other. The axis of the combined work should be to hit the enemy on the head through and through. They only withdrew from south Lebanon because they were shipping back too many coffins. So coffins is what they understand. And we should make no apologies here because our own graveyards are full. Before preachers try to teach you about the humanity of our enemy, teach them about how we have been dehumanized. They said: “The Palestinians don’t exist”! We have been subjugated to a process of extinction here. Now they’re even talking about making genes-smart bombs that kill only Arabs. These people are not about coexistence.
They still have their kids sing in Kindergarten: this bank of the Jordan River is ours, and the other one too! Why are you asking us to change?
FAV: ..and the “Israelis” that support our struggle!
Laila: This is something that concerns the Palestinians of 1948. It is not a task on the national level, except insofar as it contributes to flaming differences within “Israeli” society, and weakens the occupation. Full stop. But I don’t tell our Palestinian masses there to go to the booth to vote for Labor or Meretz. These still say our land is theirs.
I CHALLENGE ANY OF THE PARTIES THAT CLAIM TO SUPPORT PALESTINIAN RIGHTS IN ‘ISRAEL’ TO SAY THAT JERUSALEM IS OURS. None of them do. So what the heck? We don’t need more empty slogans from “Israelis” who claim to be supporting us. The United Nations resolution that recognized “Israel” tied that recognition to the return of refugees. But that was not observed because in this jungle the strong imposes its code. Let those “Israelis” who say they support us call for our return. Look, if you want to note with appreciation a large demonstration by “Peace Now”, fine. But don’t fantasize.
FAV: Are you willing to share Jerusalem?
Laila: No way and never. I want to go back to Haifa where I was born. What are you talking about?
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We can not negate that the PLO headed by Yasef Arafat put Palestine in the Map again, if it was not for him the Palestinian Plight could have been ignored maybe until now. Even if we did not like the methods used by the PLO was the only way that Israel and her supporters were going to negotiate with him. And even if we disagree with the agreements Yassef Arafat was forced to accept we need to understand the circumstances of those agreements.
Not everything was done because personal preferences of Yassef Arafat, most of the documents that he signed were the less of the evils. I do not doubt for one moment that when Yassef enter the United Nations conference he have in his mind to sell Palestinian Identity. For the contrary he enter the conference with his head high and his rifle by his side. And after that day the whole world started speaking about Palestine again.
Even thought after the years the light shed on Palestine will diminish again, the Resistance took form, because the PLO brought energy to the old struggle. We can not deny the power that Yasser Arafat had and have in the young Palestinians. He never wanted divisions, he always spoke as Palestine as one nation, and that we also own to him and his group.
Our woman hero Laila Khaled fought along with Yasser Arafat and she knew the situation, and the agreements in its time, she speaks of her disapproval in some of the issues, I wonder if she have had the power of the pen, if another Palestine have resulted.
We can never underestimate the power of woman intuition. That is another story.
NABLUS CITY
Posted on March 01, 2011by Omar Karem
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دينة نابلس
مدينة كنعانية عربية ، حيث يعود تاريخها إلى 9000 سنة . وكان اسمها ” شكيم” بمعنى المنكب أو الكتف ، وذكرتها رسائل تل العمارنة باسم (SKAKMI ) وموقع بلدة “شكيم” من أجمل مواقع مدن فلسطين فقد أقيمت على واد لا يزيد عرضه عن ميل واحد وبيت جبلي ” عيبال وجرزيم ” المرتفعين ، حيث تكسوهما الكروم وبساتين الزيتون ، والينابيع الكثيرة التي تروي جنائن المدينة ، هذا الموقع الجميل جعل من الصعب تحصينها وجعلها أقل قدرة على الدفاع . قد واجهت نابلس كغيرها من المدن الفلسطينية مراحل الغزو المختلفة عبر التاريخ ، وفتحها عمر بن العاص بعد فتح غزة . أقدم من سكن ” شكيم ” من العرب هم الحويون والجرزيون ” .
وإذا كانت فلسطين هي قلب الوطن العربي لربطها شماله بجنوبه فإن نابل هي قلب فلسطين لربطها شمالها بجنوبها ، وهي تتمتع بموقع جغرافي هام ، فهي تتوسط إقليم المرتفعات الجبلية الفلسطينية ، وتعتبر جبال نابلس حلقة في سلسلة المدن الجبلية الممتدة من الشمال إلى الجنوب ، وهي تقع على مفترق طرق رئيسية تمتد من العفولة وجنين شمالا حتى الخليل جنوبا ، ومن طولكرم غربا حتى جسر دامية شرقا ، وتبعد مدينة نابلس عن القدس 69 كم وتربطها بمدنها وقراها شبكة جيدة من الطرق .
ومدينة نابلس هي مركز قضاء يحمل اسمها (قضاء نابلس) والذي يضم إضافة إليها 130 قرية كبيرة وصغيرة ، ويحد قضاء نابلس من الشمال قضائي جنين وبيسان ، ومن الجنوب أقضية القدس ورام الله والرملة ، ومن الشرق نهر الأردن ومن الغرب قضاء طولكرم ، وتبلغ مساحة قضاء نابلس (1591718) كم2 ، وذلك حسب تقدير عام 1945 ، أما بعد نكبة 1948 فقد بلغت مساحته (1584)كم2 ، أما عدد سكان القضاء فقـد بلغت عام 1922
(56965) نسمة وعام 1945 حوالي (89200) نسمة . أما مدينة نابلس فقد بلغت مساحة أراضيها 8365 دونما وهي ترتفع عن مستوى سطح البحر 500م . أما عدد السكان فقد بلغوا عام 1922 (15947) نسمة وعام 1945 حوالي (23250) نسمة وبعد نكسة حزيران 1967 فقد انخفض عددهم بسبب نزوح أعداد كبيرة إاى الأردن ، حيث بلغ عدد السكان حوالي 44 ألف نسمة أما في 1997 فقد بلغوا حسب الاحصاء الفلسطيني حوالي (261377) نسمة . ومدينة نابلس تتكون من قسمين ، البلدة القديمة والتي تقوم في وسط المدينة والمعروفة بأزقتها على الأطراف وعلى سفوح جبلي عيبال وجرزيم . ومدينة نابلس تمثل مركزا اقتصاديا هاما ، حيث اشتهرت بصناعة النسيج والجلود والكيماويات والصابون والصناعات المعدنية . وهي عامرة بمدارسها وماساجدها الكثيرة .
وقد سميت جبال نابلس ” جبال النار ” وذلك لما أبداه أهالي نابلس من ضروب البطولة والبسالة دفاعا عن الأرض والحق ، وذلك في كافة الثورات والإضرابات والمظاهرات التي عمت البلاد منذ عشرنيات هذا القرن لمواجهة الاحتلالين البريطاني والصهيوني ، شـأنها بذلك شأن كل المدن والقرى الفلسطينية . وبعد احتلالها عام 1967 فقد تعرضت مثل كل مدن الوطن الفلسطيني إلى هجمة استيطانية شرسة حيث أقيمت العديد من المستعمرات حولها .
ARYAHAA CITY
مدينة أريحا
مدينة كنعانية عربية ، وتعتبر أقدم مدينة في العالم اكتشفت حتى الآن ، حيث يرجع تاريخها إلى أكثر من (7000) سنة ق. م . وموضعها القديم ” تل السلطان ” والذي يقع على نحو 2 كم للشمال الغربي من أريحا .
وكلمة ” أريحا ” تعني عند الكنعانيين القمر وهي مشتقة من فعل ” يرحو ” واليرح ” في لغة جنوب الجزيرة العربية تعني الشهر أو القمر وفي السريانية تعني الرائحة أو الأريج ريحه وفي التوراة هي أقدم مدينة معروفة .
جددها ووسعها هيرودس الكبير وأقام فيها القصور والحدائق وأنشأ جنوبها القلاع الحصينة لحماية المدينة والدفاع عنها ، وقد خربي فيما بعد ولم يبق منها سوى الأنقاض .
أعاد الرومان يناءها على وادي القلط في عهد الامبراطور قسطنطين الكبير ، وأقيم في ضواحيها الكنائس والأديرة . وقد ازدهرت أريحا وتقدمت في عهد البيزنطيين ، حتى دخلها العرب في الفتح الإسلامي ، وكانت أهم مدينة زراعية في غور الأردن ، ومحاطة بالنخيل والموز وقصب السكر .
ثم قل شان أريحا ، ولم تعد سوى قرية صغيرة ، وظلت كذلك حتى مطلع القرن العشرين ، وفي العهد العثماني ارتفعت مكانتها من قرية إلى ناحية ، وذلك عام 1908 ، وتحولت من ناحية إلى مركز قضاء يحمل اسمها في العهد البريطاني ، ثم ألغي قضاء أريحا وقضاء بيت لحم عام 1944 وضما إلى قضاء القدس ، وبعد نكبة 1948 عادت أريحا مركزا للقضاء مرة أخرى .
وتقوم أريحا اليوم على هضبة منبسطة وسط واحة خصبة تكثر فيها الأشجار والمساه وتنخفض عن مستوى سطح البحر 276م وترتبط حاليا مع غور الألردن والضفتين الشرقية والغربية بشبكة طرق معبدة ، وهي تقع على الطريق الرئيسية بين القدس والعوز ، وتبعد عن القدس حوالي 37 كم شرقا ، وتعتبر البوابة الشرقية لفلسطين .
تبلغ مساحة قضاء أريحا حوالي 3407كم2 أما مساحة أراضي مدينة أريحا فقد بلغت حوالي 38481 دونما ، وبلغ عدد سكانها عام 1922 (1039) نسمـــة ، وعام 1945 قــــــدروا (3010) نسمة ، وعام 1961 (10166) نسمة . ومناخ أريحا مناخ مداري صحراوي حيث ارتفاع درجة الحرارة معظم شهور السنة وقلة الأمطار وقلما يحدث الصقيع أو سقوط الثلوج فيها ، دافئة شتاء مما يجعلها من أفضل الأماكن للتشتية ويؤمها كثير من الناس لهذا الغرض إضافة إلى السياح للإطلاع على آثارها والتمتع بدفئها .
وقد عرفت أريحا منذ القدم بخصوبة تربتها ووفرة مياهها وقد حافظت على شهرتها الزراعية . وعرفت أريحا منذ القدم كذلك بصناعة السكر وتصنيع التمر وصناعة الحصير ويوجد بها مصنعان للنسيج إضافة لصناعة المياه الغازية وتشميع الحمضيات والمفروشات والكبريت . وتشتهر أريحا بالأماكن السياحية ، ومن أهمها البحر الميت ، قصر هشام بن عبد الملك ، ودير قرنطل ، تل عين السلطان ، دير القديس يوحنا المعمران ، دير حجلة وغيرها
HISTORY PALESTINE YAFAA CITY IN 1948
Posted on March 01, 2011 by Omar Karem
مدينة يافا
مدينة عربية تقع على الساحل الشرقي للبحر المتوسط
وتُعتبر نافذة فلسطين الرئيسة على البحر المتوسط. وإحدى بواباتها الهامة. وقد كانت تلعب دوراً كبيراً وهاماً في ربط فلسطين بالعالم الخارجي. من حيث وقوعها كمحطة رئيسية تتلاقى فيها بضائع الشرق والغرب. وجسراً للقوافل التجارية. ويُعد ميناء يافا هو ميناء فلسطين الأول من حيث القِدم والأهمية التجارية والإقتصادية
تقع يافا على البحر الأبيض المتوسط. إلى الجنوب من مصب نهر العوجا. على بُعد 7كم. وإلى الشمال الغربي من مدينة القدس على بُعد 60كم. وكلمة يافا هي تحريف لكلمة (يافي) الكنعانية. وتعني جميلة. أطلق اليونانيون عليها اسم (جوبي). وذكرها الفرنجة باسم (جافا)
يُشكل تاريخ يافا تصويراً حيّاً لتاريخ فلسطين عبر العصور
فتاريخها يمتد إلى (4000 ق.م). بناها الكنعانيون. وكانت مملكة بحد ذاتها. وغزاها الفراعنة. والآشوريون. والبابليون. والفرس. واليونان. والرومان. ثم فتحها القائد الإسلامي عمرو بن العاص. وخضعت لكل الممالك الإسلامية. إلى أن احتلها الأتراك. ثم الانتداب البريطاني. وبعده نكبة 1948 واحتلال الصهاينة لها وتشريد غالبية سكانها
بلغت مساحة يافا حوالي 17510 دونمات
وضمت سبعة أحياء رئيسية هي : البلدة القديمة. حي المنشية. حي العجمي. حي ارشيد. حي النزهة. حي
الجبلية. وهي هريش (اهريش)
احتلت مدينة يافا مركزاً هاماً في التجارة الداخلية والخارجية بفضل وجود ميناؤها. كما قامت بها عدة صناعات أهمها: صناعة البلاط. والأسمنت. والسجائر. والورق والزجاج. وسكب الحديد. والملابس والنسيج. وكانت أيضاً مركزاً متقدماً في صيد الأسماك
وكانت مدينة يافا مركزاً للنشاط الثقافي والأدبي في فلسطين. حيث صدرت فيها معظم الصحف والمجلات الفلسطينية
وبلغت مدارس يافا قبل 1948 (47) مدرسة منها (17) للبنين. و(11) للبنات. و(19) مختلطة
وكان فيها أيضاً ستة أسواق رئيسية متنوعة وعامرة. وكان بها أربعة مستشفيات. وحوالي12 جامعاً عدا الجوامع المقامة في السكنات. وبها عشرة كنائس وثلاث أديرة
لعبت مدينة يافا دوراً مميزاً وريادياً في الحركة الوطنية ومقاومة المحتل البريطاني من جهة والصهاينة من جهة أخرى. فمنها انطلقت ثورة 1920 ومنها بدأ الإضراب التاريخي الذي عَمَّ البلاد كلها عام 1936. ودورها الفعّال في ثورة 1936. وقد شهدت يافا بعد قرار التقسيم معارك دامية بين المجاهدين وحامية يافا من جهة والصهاينة من جهة أخرى
وبعد سقوط المدينة واقتحامها من قبل الصهاينة في 15/5/1948 جمع الصهاينة أهالي يافا في حي العجمي. وأحاطوه بالأسلاك الشائكة. وجعلوا الخروج منه والد*** إليه بتصريح من الحكم الصهيوني
الخريطة
مدينة فلسطينية تقع على ساحل البحر المتوسط الى الجنوب من مصب نهر العوجا بنحو 7 أكيال على ارتفاع 35 متر عن سطح البحر…واسمها الحديث تحريف لكلمة ياف يالكنعانية بمعنى جميل وتقع قافا القديمة على التلة القائمة على مينائها..كتبتها بعض المصادر يافة بالتاء المربوطة وكتبتها مصار أخرى يافا بالألف وقد ينسب اليها باسم يافوني وتعتبر أقدم موانىء العالم..يعود بناؤها الى الكنعانيين الذين نزلوا البلاد منذ 4500 سنة وقد نزل يافا عام 825 قبل الميلاد النبي يونس ليركب منها سفينة قاصدا ترشيش وعندما قذفه الحوت نزل على الشاطىء الفلسطيني عن النبي يونس قرب أسدود أو عند تل يونس بين وبين ويافا..
فتحها عمرو بن العاص ويقال معاوية وصفها الشاري المقدسي سنة 380هـ فقال: ويافة على البحر صغيرة الا أنها خزانة فلسطين وفرضة الرملة عليها حصن منيع بأبواب محددة..وباب البحر كله حديد..وكانت يافا احدى المراكز التي يتبادل بها الأسرى..فتأتي اليها سفن الروم ومعهم أسارى المسلمين للبيع..كل ثلاثة بمائة دينار..والبرتقال في يافا وسهولها كشجرة الزيتون في منطقة القدس الجبلية..والبرتقال والليمون يرجعان بالأصل الى بلاد الهند..أتى بهما العرب الى عمان فالبصرة فبلاد الشام خلال القرن العاشر الميلادي..ونقلهما الصليبيون من عرب فلسطين..أما البرتقال الحلو فقد اكتشفه البرتغاليون في الهند وقيل لهم انه جاء من الصين..وكان الأترج والكباد يغرف في فلسطين في النصف الأول من العصور المسيحية..وبعد الحرب الأولى أخذ الفلسطينيون يزرعون أنواعا جديدة من الحمضيات وفي مقدمتها ليمون الجنة(الكريفوت)
أخذت يافا تنمو في النصف الثاني من القرن التاسع عشر..وأزيل السور وفي سنة 1886 م بوشر البناء في شمال البلدة فكان نواة حي المنشية وأقيمت بجوار الشيخ ابراهيم العجمي البيوت..فنما حي العجمي في جنوب يافا..بلغ عدد سكانها سنة 1945 م “66310 نسمة لم يبق بعد النكبة الا أربعة الاف عربي وفي سنة 1965 م بلغ السكان العرب عشرة الاف من أصل مائة ألف ساكن
وأحياء يافا: في البلدة القديمة..هي: الطابية(القلعة) والنقيب والمنشية في شمالها..وأرشيد والعجمي والجبلية وأهريش والنزهة وهناك أحياء تعرف باسم السكنات تقع بين بيارات البرتقال منها سكنة درويش وسكنة العراينة وسكنة أبو كبير..
في عام 1954 م ضمت يافا الى ضاحيتها السابقة تل أبيب واصبحتا تعرفان باسم تل أبيب يافو وأكثر العرب الباقين في المدينو يسكنون في حي العجمي…
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مدينة الناصرة
تقوم مدينة الناصرة فوق رقعة متوسطة الارتفاع داخل الجليل الأدنى وترتفع 400 متر عن سطح البحر و300 متر عن مستوى سهل مرج ابن عامر..وتحيط بالناصرة جبال مرتفعة هي جزء من جبال الجليل الأدنى وأهم الجبال المجاورة للناصرة جبل طابور..ويقد يسمى جبل الطور 588 متر ويبعد تسعة أكيال عن الناصرة..تكسوه أشجار السنديان والجوز..وتشير التقاليد المسيحية أن المسيح تجلى على هذا الجبل لطائفة من تلاميذه ولذلك أقيمت عليه الكنائس منذ القرون الأولى للمسيحية..وجبل الني سعين وذكره ياقوت باسم جبال الساعير وذكره النويري في نهاية الأرب..بأنه الجبل الذي ظهرت فيه نبوة عيسى..وجبل الدحي..جنوب الناصرة ويعلو 515 متر نسبة الى قرية الدحي..المدفنون بها دحية الكلبي..صاحب رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم..وجبل السيخ ويرتفع 573 م والسيخ كلمة فارسية وهو العمود الذي يوضع فيه اللحم وأهم الينابيع المحيطة بها عين العذراء وعين القناة وعين أبو راس وعين القسطل وعين موسى..
ولم يرد للمدينة ذكر في المصادر قبل الانجيل..وقد استمدت الناصرة مكانتها لأنها مدينة السيد المسيح ومريم العذراء..ففيها ولدت واستوطنت مريم العذراء ويوسف النجار وفيها بشر الملك جبريل مرين بعيسى وفيها قضي المسيح عليه السلام ثلاثين سنة..فتح المدينة شرحبيل بن حسنة سنة 13 هـ وفي الحروب الصليبية بقيت بين أخذ ورد بين المسلمين والمسيحيين الى أن فتحها الظاهر بيبرس وهدم كنائسها وأديرتها..ثم احتلها الملك أدوارد الانجليزي في الحملة الصليبية التاسة والأخيرة سنة 670هـ ثم رجعت الى المسلمين على يد السلطان خليل بن قلاوون سنة 691هـ وظلت الناصرة في حال من الانحطاط مدة ثلاثة قرون بعد هذا التاريخ وقد اتوطنها المسلمون بعد طرد الفرنجة منها ولكن ظل الرهبان والحجاج المسيحيون يزورونها…ذكرها البكري في ” معجم ما استعجم” باسم “نصورية” بفتح الأول وضم الثاني قال: واليها تنسب النصرانية..وقيل اسمها:”ناصرت” بسكون التاء المفتوحة..وقيل ناصرت بالتاء المفتوحة وقيل ناصرة بالتاء المربوطة أما ياقوت الحموي فذكرها باسم الناصرة..وهي مدينة لها مكانة كبيرة في نفوس المسيحيين..وأِشهر كنائسها كنيسة بشارة..التي كانت تؤلف جزءا كبيرا من مسكن مريم العذراء..وقد توالت على هذه الكنيسة أحداث وتداولها الهدم والترميم الى أن بنيت البناء الأخير الفني الطراز سنة 1969م
ومن كنائسها أيضا كنيسة العيالة المسيحية..على بيت وحانوت يوسف النجار وتسمى كنيسة القديس يوسف وهي على بعد 150 متر شمال كنيسة بشارة وكنيسة القديس جبرائيل أو البشارة للروم الأرثوذكس على بعد 800 متر من كنيسة البشارة ودعيت بهذا الاسم لأنه ماءها يجري منعين الناصرة التي كانت مريم تردها كسائر نساء القرية وربما بشرها الملاك بميلاد عيسى عند هذا الحين..بلغ عدد سكان الناصرة سنة 1945م 14200 عربي..وفي سنة 1965م كان بها 25 الف عربي ومن عائلاتها المسلمة دار البيطار..والزعبية..وهما فرعان..دار حمودة..ودار عبيد..ثم حمولة الزيدانة ينسبون الى زيدان جد ظاهر العمر ودار الصفدي ودار عون ودار الفاهوم ودار قبطان والهوارة ودار يزبط أو اليزابكة وعائلة حمادة التي ظهر منها الكتاب والأدباء..أما سكان الناصرة من المسيحيين فأصلهم من لبنان أو حوران ومن عائلاتهم دار أبو جابر وأبو جوهر وأبو العسل ودار أمطانس أبو علي ودار البولس ودار الأورفلي ودار الأشقر ودار أصيلة ودار البجالي ودار الخوري والداموني والديك..
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مدينة الناصرة
دلت الحفريات على أن الناصرة سكنت منذ العصر البرونزي المتوسط والعصر الحديدي ، حيث عثر فيها على قبور أثرية منقورة في الصخر وفي الكهوف .
والناصرة مدينة عربية من أكبر مدن فلسطين وأجملها وهي مركز لقضاء يحمل اسمها ” قضاء الناصرة ” ولها مكانة خاصة عند المسيحين في مختلف أنحاء العالم فهم يحجون إليها كما يحجون إلى القدس وبيت لحم ويرجع إليها نسب سيدنا عيسى عليه السلام فدعي “يالناصري ” وعرف أتباعه أيضا بالنصارى .
تقع مدينة الناصرة بين أقضية عكا شمالا ، وحيفا غربا ، وطبرية وبيسان شرقا ، وجنين جنوبا . وهي عاصمة الجليل الأدنى وفي قلبه ، وتقوم على رقعة متوسطة الارتفاع 400م عن مستوى سطح البحر ، و300م عن مستوى سهل مرج بن عامر ، حيث تطل على البحر والمرج والكرمل والغور وجبال النار . بلغت مساحة أراضي قضاء الناصرة 497533 دونما أما مساحة أراضي مدينة الناصرة فقد بلغت 10226 دونما . وبلغ عدد سكان قضاء الناصرة عام 1922 (22681) نسمة ، وقدروا عام 1945 (46100) نسمة وبلغ عدد سكان مدينة الناصرة عام 1922 (7424) نسمة وقدروا عام 1945 (14200) نسمة .
ومناخ الناصرة هو مناخ البحر الأبيض المتوسط حيث الجفاف والحرارة المعتدلة صيفا والمطر الدفئ شتاء .
وأهم المحاصيل الزراعية في الناصرة ، الحبوب والفواكه ، والزيتون والخضروات ، وأما أهم صناعاتها فهي المصنوعات الخشبية ، وإعداد الجلود وصناعة الفخار وصناعة الهدايا من النحاس والسجاد .
في الناصرة 24 كنيسة وديرا ، وعدد من المعالم الدينية وبعض المساجد وأضرحة الشهداء والصالحين من المسلمين . فهي تضم ضريح الشهيد الشاعر عبد الرحيم محمود ، والمناضل الشاعر توفيق زياد .
وأهم المعالم الدينية : كنيسة البشارة ، كنيسة القديس يوسف ، كنيسة البلاطة ، كنيسة سيدة الرجفة أو الرعشة ، وعين العذراء : هي نبع رئيسي في المدينة وينسب للعذراء مريم لأنها كانت تستقي منها احتلت القوات البريطانية مدينة الناصرة في 21/9/1918 ، وكانت الناصرة في طليعة المدن الفلسطينية التي قاومت الاحتلال البريطاني والصهيوني ، حيث شاركت في كل الثورات والاضطرابات والمؤتمرات الفلسطينية التي شهدتها البلاد ضد البريطانيين والصهاينة . ورغم الدفاع البطولي من أهالي الناصرة وحامينها فقد احتلت المنظمات الصهيونية المسلحة المدينة في يوم الجمعة 16/7/1948 .
واليوم فإن الناصرة هي أكبر مدن فلسطين في الوطن المحتل وتمثل قاعدة للثقافة ومركزا للحركة الوطنية الفلسطينية
مدينة الناصرة
دلت الحفريات على أن الناصرة سكنت منذ العصر البرونزي المتوسط والعصر الحديدي ، حيث عثر فيها على قبور أثرية منقورة في الصخر وفي الكهوف .
والناصرة مدينة عربية من أكبر مدن فلسطين وأجملها وهي مركز لقضاء يحمل اسمها ” قضاء الناصرة ” ولها مكانة خاصة عند المسيحين في مختلف أنحاء العالم فهم يحجون إليها كما يحجون إلى القدس وبيت لحم ويرجع إليها نسب سيدنا عيسى عليه السلام فدعي “يالناصري ” وعرف أتباعه أيضا بالنصارى .
تقع مدينة الناصرة بين أقضية عكا شمالا ، وحيفا غربا ، وطبرية وبيسان شرقا ، وجنين جنوبا . وهي عاصمة الجليل الأدنى وفي قلبه ، وتقوم على رقعة متوسطة الارتفاع 400م عن مستوى سطح البحر ، و300م عن مستوى سهل مرج بن عامر ، حيث تطل على البحر والمرج والكرمل والغور وجبال النار . بلغت مساحة أراضي قضاء الناصرة 497533 دونما أما مساحة أراضي مدينة الناصرة فقد بلغت 10226 دونما . وبلغ عدد سكان قضاء الناصرة عام 1922 (22681) نسمة ، وقدروا عام 1945 (46100) نسمة وبلغ عدد سكان مدينة الناصرة عام 1922 (7424) نسمة وقدروا عام 1945 (14200) نسمة .
ومناخ الناصرة هو مناخ البحر الأبيض المتوسط حيث الجفاف والحرارة المعتدلة صيفا والمطر الدفئ شتاء .
وأهم المحاصيل الزراعية في الناصرة ، الحبوب والفواكه ، والزيتون والخضروات ، وأما أهم صناعاتها فهي المصنوعات الخشبية ، وإعداد الجلود وصناعة الفخار وصناعة الهدايا من النحاس والسجاد .
في الناصرة 24 كنيسة وديرا ، وعدد من المعالم الدينية وبعض المساجد وأضرحة الشهداء والصالحين من المسلمين . فهي تضم ضريح الشهيد الشاعر عبد الرحيم محمود ، والمناضل الشاعر توفيق زياد .
وأهم المعالم الدينية : كنيسة البشارة ، كنيسة القديس يوسف ، كنيسة البلاطة ، كنيسة سيدة الرجفة أو الرعشة ، وعين العذراء : هي نبع رئيسي في المدينة وينسب للعذراء مريم لأنها كانت تستقي منها احتلت القوات البريطانية مدينة الناصرة في 21/9/1918 ، وكانت الناصرة في طليعة المدن الفلسطينية التي قاومت الاحتلال البريطاني والصهيوني ، حيث شاركت في كل الثورات والاضطرابات والمؤتمرات الفلسطينية التي شهدتها البلاد ضد البريطانيين والصهاينة . ورغم الدفاع البطولي من أهالي الناصرة وحامينها فقد احتلت المنظمات الصهيونية المسلحة المدينة في يوم الجمعة 16/7/1948 .
واليوم فإن الناصرة هي أكبر مدن فلسطين في الوطن المحتل وتمثل قاعدة للثقافة ومركزا للحركة الوطنية الفلسطينية .
JURESLIM CITY
مدينة القدس
تعتبرالقدس من أقدم مدن الأرض ، فقد هدمت وأعيد بناؤها أكثر من 18 مرة في التاريخ، وترجع نشأتها إلى 5000 سنة ق.م، حيث عمرها الكنعانيون، واعطوها اسمها، وفي 3000 ق.م. سكنها العرب اليبوسيين، وبنوا المدينة وأطلقوا عليها اسم مدينة السلام، نسبة إلى سالم أو شالم “إله السلام” عندهم، وقد ظهرت في هذه المدينة أول جماعة آمنت بالتوحيد برعاية ملكها “ملكى صادق”، وقد وسع ملكى صادق المدينة واطلق عليها اسم “أورسالم” أي مدينة السلام. وحملت القدس العديد من الأسماء عبر فترات التاريخ، ورغم هذا التعدد إلا أنها حافظت على اسمها الكنعاني العربي.
وتعتبر القدس ظاهرة حضارية فذة تنفرد فيها دون سواها من مدن العالم، فهي المدينة المقدسة التي يقدسها اتباع الديانات السماوية الثلاث: المسلمون، النصارى، واليهود، فهي قبلة لهم ومصدر روحي ورمزاً لطموحاتهم.
شيدت النواة الأولى للقدس على تلال الظهور (الطور أو تل أوفل)، المطلة على بلدة سلوان، إلى الجنوب الشرقي من المسجد الأقصى، لكن هذه النواة تغيرت مع الزمن وحلت محلها نواة رئيسية تقوم على تلال اخرى مثل مرتفع بيت الزيتون (بزيتا) في الشمال الشرقي للمدينة بين باب الساهرة وباب حطة، ومرتفع ساحة الحرم (مدريا) في الشرق، ومرتفع صهيون في الجنوب الغربي، وهي المرتفعات التي تقع داخل السور فيما يُعرف اليوم بالقدس القديمة.
وتمتد القدس الآن بين كتلتي جبال نابلس في الشمال، وجبال الخليل في الجنوب، وتقع إلى الشرق من البحر المتوسط، وتبعد عنها 52كم، وتبعد عن البحر الميت 22كم، وترتفع عن سطح البحر حوالي 775م، ونحو 1150م عن سطح البحر الميت، وهذا الموقع الجغرافي والموضع المقدس للدينة ساهما في جعل القدس المدينة المركزية في فلسطين.
وكانت القدس لمكانتها موضع أطماع الغزاة، فقد تناوب على غزوها وحكمها في العهد القديم: العبرانيون، الفارسيون، السلوقيون، الرومانيون، والصليبيون، أما في العهد الحديث فكان العثمانيون، والبريطانيون، كلهم رحلوا وبقيت القدس صامدة في وجه الغزاة وسيأتي الدور ليرحل الصهاينة، وتبقى القدس مشرقة بوجهها العربي.
بلغت مساحة أراضيها حوالي 20790 دونماً،
قامت المنظمات الصهيونية المسلحة في 28/4/1948 باحتلال الجزء الغربي من القدس، وفي عام 1967 تم احتلال الجزء الشرقي منها، وفي 27/6/1967 أقر الكنيست الإسرائيلي ضم شطري القدس، وفي 30/7/1980 أصدر الكنيست قراراً يعتبر القدس الموحدة عاصمة لإسرائيل. وقد تعرضت القدس للعديد من الإجراءات العنصرية تراوحت بين هدم أحياء بكاملها مثل حي المغاربة، ومصادرة الأراضي لإقامة المستعمرات، وهدم المنازل العربية أو الإستيلاء عليها، والضغط على السكان العرب من أجل ترحيلهم .
وكانت أكثل الأشكال العنصرية بروزاً هي مصادرة الأراضي، فقد صادرت اسرائيل ما يزيد على 23 الف دونم من مجموع مساحة القدس الشرقية البالغة 70 ألف دونم، منذ عام 1967، وأقيم عليها حوالي 35 ألف وحدة سكنية لليهود، ولم يتم اقامة أي وحدة سكنية للعرب. وما زالت اسرائيل مستمرة في مصادرة الأراضي من القدس.
وتحيط بالقدس حوالي عشرة أحياء سكنية، وأكثر من 41 مستعمرة، تشكل خمس كتل إستيطانية.
تُعتبر القدس من أشهر المدن السياحية، وهي محط أنظار سكان العالم أجمع، يؤمها السياح لزيارة الأماكن المقدسة، والأماكن التاريخية الهامة، فهي تضم العديد من المواقع الأثرية الدينية، ففيها : الحرم الشريف، مسجد الصخرة، المسجد الأقصى، حائط البراق، الجامع العمري، كنيسة القيامة، كما يقع إلى شرقها جبل الزيتون، الذي يعود تاريخه إلى تاريخ القدس، فيضم مدافن ومقامات شهداء المسلمين، وتوجد على سفحه بعض الكنائس والأديرة مثل الكنيسة الجثمانية التي قضى فيها المسيح أيامه الأخيرة.
والقدس حافلة بالمباني الأثرية الإسلامية النفيسة، ففيها أكثر من مائة بناء أثري إسلامي، وتُعتبر قبة الصخرة هي أقدم هذه المباني، وكذلك المسجد الأقصى، وفي عام 1542م شيد السلطان العثماني سليمان القانوني سوراً عظيماً يحيط بالقدس، يبلغ محيطه أربع كيلومترات، وله سبعة أبواب هي : العمود، الساهرة، الأسباط، المغاربة، النبي داود، الخليل، الحديد.
وقد تعرض المسجد الأقصى منذ عام 1967 إلى أكثر من عشرين اعتداء تراوحت بين التدمير والهدم، والاحراق، وإطلاق الرصاص، وحفر الأنفاق، واستفزازات الصلاة، وشهدت القدس عدة مذابح ضد الفلسطينيين، وما زال الفلسطينيون وسكان القدس يتعرضوا إلى الإستفزازات والإجراءات العنصرية الصهيونية
الخريطة
تاريخ القدس القديم
أ- الأرض المقدسة:
ب- ليست مقصورة على مدينة القدس, فقد قال العلماء في قوله تعالى:” يا قوم ادخلوا الأرض المقدسة” هي أرض فلسطين وفي قوله تعالى ” الأرض التي باركنا في للعاملين” هي فلسطين
ت- ومن الواضح قوله تعالى في سورة الإسراء” سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام الى المسجد الأقصى الذي باركنا حوله” هي فلسطين لأن ما حول المسجد الأقصى هو أرض فلسطين.
ث- ويقوم القاضي مجير الدين الحنبلي وهو من أبناء القرن السابع الهجري: أن الحدود العرفية لبيت المقدس في أيامه, كانت من القبلة: مدينة الخليل ومن الشرق: نهر الأردن ومن الشمال نابلس ومن الغرب الى ما يقرب مدينة غزة. وقال بعض العلماء: إنها تشمل كل المدن التي يشملها اسم فلسطين. وقد جاءت هذه القدسية من حلول مجموعة من الأنبياء فيها. وتم لهم التبشير والدعوة الى معرفة الله. وقد جاء في صحيح البخاري أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سئل: من أكرم الناس يا رسول الله؟ فقال: أتقاهم لله, قالوا : ليس عن هذا نسألك: قال : فأكرم الناس يوسف الصديق, فانه نبي الله ابن نبي الله ابن نبي الله بن خليل الله”وهؤلاء الأربعة وهم: إبراهيم الخليل وولده اسحق وولده يعقوب وولده يوسف, قبورهم في فلسطين وفي محل واحد في مدينة الخليل, ومن الأنبياء غير ما ذكرت: النبي لوط الذي هاجر مع عمه إبراهيم الى الأرض المقدسة فقال الله تعالى عن سيدنا إبراهيم”ونجيناه ولوطا الى الأرض التي باركنا في للعالمين”
وهي الأرض المقدسة فلسطين, فإبراهيم عليه السلام نزل الخليل, ولوط نزل سادوم, وعامورة, قرب البحر الميت. وأما يوسف الصديق فهو من مواليد فلسطين بالقرب من نابلس وانتقل الى مصر في قصته المشهورة, وعندما قدم موسى الى الأرض فلسطين حمل جثمانه معه ودفن في الخليل, ومن الأنبياء: داوود, الذي أقام مملكة في القدس وتلاه ابنه سليمان عليها السلام, ومن الأنبياء زكريا ويحيى وعيسى ابن مريم
بناء القدس واسمها:
لقد كان أول من تزل القدس وأرضها” اليبوسيون” وهم قبيلة من الكنعانيين العرب وملكوا عليهم ” ملكي صادق” فاختط مدينة القدس. أو اختطها حفيد ايلياء ولذلك كانت تدعى “يبوس” كما تدعى ايلياء. ويقول القاضي مجير الدين: إن القدس القديمة كانت أكبر من مصر_القاهرة_وأكبر من بغداد في أيام ازدهارها.
ويرجع المؤخرون أن نزوح اليبوسيين الى أرض فلسطين, كان منذ(4000) سنة قبل الميلاد. كانت ديانة اليبوسيين عبادة الأصنام وكان صنمهم الأكبر” بعل” وصنع من الذهب, وقد سميت بعد اسم يبوس, وايلياء, بأسماء كثيرة منها: أورشليم, بمعنى أرض السلام كما سميت صهيون نسبة الى هضبة داخل أورشليم.
أما تسميتها بالقدس أوب يت المقدس فهو اسم اسلامي وقد أضاف اليه العثمانيون ضفة الشريف فقالوا القدس الشريف”
العهود التي مرت على القدس: مرت على القدس العهود التي مرت على فلسطين, فبعد أن بناها اليبوسيون وسكنوها قرونا عديدة, ظهر العبرانيون, والمصريون أتباع موسى, الذين ادعوا أنهم(إسرائيليون” وما هم بإسرائيليين, لأن ذرية إسرائيل يعقوب عليه السلام التي دخلت مصر كان قليلة وامتزجت بالشعب المصري.
جاء هؤلاء مع موسى في نحو القرن الثالث عشر قبل الميلاد وبعد عصر إبراهيم بحوالي 500 سنة وقد وقعوا في التيه في سيناء 40 سنة فدخلوا فلسطين وأناخوا بجوال القدس, يترقبون الفرص لاحتلالها, ومات موسى حينما كانوا منتشرين بين القرى والضياع فصاروا يضايقون سكان القدس, وحانت الفرصة لهم فاحتلوا القدس بعد صراع طويل ضعف فيه أمر اليبوسيين ولكن سكان القدس لم يغادروها وبقول بعد ذلك 300 سنة يقيمون في جبل صهيون داخل القدس, ولم تقم للعبرانيين دولة إلا بعد دخول داود القدس. وكان داود يقيم حبرون “مدينة الخليل, فغزا أورشليم وفتحها فتمسك به العبرانيون وعدوه ملكهم الأول. وبدأ في بناء الهيكل” المعبد” أي المسجد, وأكمله بعده ابنه سليمان في نحو سنة 1007 ق.م فسمي هيكل سليمان ولم يكن داود وسليمان يهودا واكن الهيكل الذي بناه سليمان خاص بالموحدين المؤمنين باله داود وسليمان ولم يكن خاصا بالإسرائيليين أو العبرانيين وبعد موت سليمان انقسمت الدولة الى مملكتين: يهوذا وعاصمتهما( أورشليم” فيا لجنوب من فلسطين ومملكة السامرة وعاصمتها شكيم أي نابلس. ومن ذلك التاريخ ظهر اسم اليهود نسبة الى يهوذا
وعندما جاء نبوخذ نصر الكلداني ملك بابل قضى على دولة اليهود وسبا رجالهم ونساءهم وساقهم الى العراق, وهناك في المنفى كتب اليهود التوراة المحرفة والتلمود, ونشأت الديانة اليهودية بصورة رسمية وعندما قضى الفرس على الكلدانيين وفتحوا بلاد الشام وفلسطين سمحوا لليهود بالعودة و إعادة بناء الهيكل الذي كان نبوخذ نصر قد هدمه, ثم هدم مرة أخرى في العهد اليوناني, وفي القرن الثاني قبل الميلاد وجاء في أثرهم العهد الروماني, وكان من أبرز عهود الرومان, عهد هيرودوس الذي نصبه الرومان حاكما, على فلسطين, فقام بتجديد الهيكل, ثم أحرق نهائيا: ولم يعد أحد يهتدي الى مكانه, وعندما اعتنق الرومان المسيحية وبنوا الكنائس واشتد ساعد المسيحيين في القدس, لم يعد لليهود مكانة منذ ذلك الوقت الى أن جاء الفتح الإسلامي وأعطى الأديان السماوية حقها في العبادة, شعر اليهود بشيء من الاطمئنان ولوا الفتح العربي لما بقي في البلاد يهودي, فهو الذي أنقذهم من اعتداءات الرومان…
يبلغ عمر القدس نحو 35 قرنا..وقد أقيمت نواتها الأولى في بقعة جبلية هي جزء من جبال القدس..ترتفع 750 متر عن سطح البحر المتوسط..ونحو 1150 متر عن سطح البحر الميت..وكانت النشأة الأولى على تلال الضهور (الطور) المطلة على قرية سلوان الى الجنوب الشرقي من المسجد الأقصى..وقد اختير هذا الموضع الدفاعي لتوفير أسباب الحماية والأمن لهذه المدينة…وساعدت مياه عين(أم الدرج) في الجناب الشرقي من الضهور على توفير المياه للسكان..ويحيط وادي جهنم (قدرون) بالمدينة القديمة من الناحية الشرقية..ووادي الربابة(هنوم) من الجهة الجنوبية..ووادي (الزبل) من الجهة الغربية..وقد كونت هذه الأودية خطوطا دفاعية..ولا يمكن دخول القدس الا من الجهتين الشمالية والشمالية الغربية..وقد هجرت النواة الأولى بمرور الزمن وحلت محلها نواة رئيسية تقوم على تلال أخرى..مثل مرتفع بيت الزيتون “بزيتا” في الشمال الشرقي ومرتفع ساحة الحرم”موريا” في الشرق..ومرتفع” صهيون”..وهي المرتفعات التي تقع داخل السور فيما يعرف اليوم بالقدس القديمة..ثم اتسعت المدينة خارج السور والتحمت بها قرى مثل” شعطاف” و”بين حنينا” و”سلوان” و”عين كارم”
_الاسم والتاريخ:
أقدم اسم لها “أورشالم” يعني الاله شالم..أي اله السلام لدى الكنعانيين وورد هذا الاسم بالتوراة..وأطلق على المدينة اسم “يبوس” نسبة الى اليبوسيين من بطون العرب الأوائل في الجزيرة العربية وهم سكان القدس الأصليون نزحوا مع من نزح من القبائل الكنعانية حوالي 3500 سنة قبل الميلاد…وسكنوا التلال المشرفة على المدينة القديمة..وبنى هؤلاء حصنا..وبقي بأيديهم(حتى بعد مجيىء الموسويين) زهاء ثلاثة قرون لعجزهم عن اقتحماه..حتى تولى ملكهم داود..فاحتلوا الحصن واتخذ أورشليم عاصمة له..وأطلق على الحصن ” مدينة داود” وكان أكثر سكان المدينة من اليبوسيين والكنعانيين وبقي اليهود يحكمون القدس (1000) سنة الى أن فتحها نبوخذ نصر البابلي في سنة 586 قبل الميلاد..ودمرها ونقل سكانها اليهود الى بابل..ثم سمح لهم ملك الفرس قورش سنة 538 قبل الميلاد بالرجوع..وبعد الفرس جاء الاسكندر المقدومي في سنة 332 قبل الميلاد..ثم جاء الرومان في سنة 63 قبل الميلاد وقام أحد الأباطرة الرومان بهدمها..وأسس مكانها مستعمرة رومانية باسم “ايليا” ثم أعاد اليها الامبراطور قسطنطين اسم أورشليم..ويبدو أن اسم ايليا بقي متداولا..لأنه وجد في عهد الأمان الذي كتبه عمر بن الخطاب..وقد تم فتح القدس على يد عمر بن الخطاب سنة 15 هـ حيث حضر الى فلسطين..وأعطى أهلها الأمان..وأخذت في العهد الاسلامي اسم “القدس” وبيت المقدس..وهكذا يتبين أن لاباني الحقيقي للقدس هم الكنعانيون..ومن ملوكهم..ملكي صادق واكن موحدا واتخذ من بقعة الحرخ الشريف معبدا له وكان يقدم ذبائحه في موقع الصخرة وما قام به داود وسليمان عليهما السلام من البناء..كان على أساس قديم هو ما بناه ملكي صادق وليا المؤسسين لبيت المقدس
_جبال القدس:
1_جبل الموريا..وعليه الحرم الشريف
2_جبل بزيتا..بالقرب من باب الساهرة
3_جبل أكرا..حيث توجد كنيسة القيامة
4_جبل صهيون..الواقع عليه مقام النبي داود
وجبال القدس ليست الا اكاما مستديرة على هضبة عظيمة بينها أودية صخرية جافة أكثر أيام السنة..ويعرف القسم الجنوبي منها باسم جبال الخليل وأشهر قمم جبال القدس: تل العاصور..وجبل النبي صمويل..وجبل المشارف..وجبل الطور..وجبل الزيتون..وجبل المكبر..وتصل جبال القدس بسهل فلسطين الساحلي عدة أودية منها: وادي جريوت..وباب الواد..أو وادي علي..ووادي الصرار..ووادي الخليل..
_أبواب القدس:
بنى السلطان العثماني سلميان القانوني عام 1542 م سورا عظيما يحيط بالقدس القديمة..يبلغ محيطه أربعة أكيال..وله سبعة أببواب:
1_ باب العمود: وهو معروف عند الأجانب باب دمشق..في منتصف الحائط الشمالي لسور القدس..وهو من ايام السلطان سليمان القانوني..
ب_ باب الساهرة: ويعرف باب” هيرودوس” وهو يقع الى الجانب الشمالي من سور القدس.
2_باب الأسباط: ويسميه الغربيون باب القديس أسطفان..يقع في الحائط الشرقي
3_باب المغاربة..وباب النبي داود في الحائط الجنوبي
4_ باب الخليل: ويسميه الغربيون باب”يافا” ويقع في الحائط الغربي
5_الباب الجديد: في الجانب الشمالي للسور على مسافة كيل غربي باب العمود وهو حديث العهد يعود الى أيام زيارة الامبراطوط غليوم الثاني لمدينة القدس سنة 1898م ( الله يرحمو سيدي نولد بهاي السنةJ)
_القدس(المسافات):
تبعد عن البحر المتوسط في خط مستقيم 52 كيلا و22 كيلا عن البحر الميت وتبعد عن دمشق 290 كيلا وعن القاهرة 528 كيلا
_القدس”المسجد الأقصى”:
يتألف الحرم القدسي من المسجدين..مسجد الصخرة والمسجد الأقصى..وما بينهما وما حولهما حتى الأسوار وقد قام ببناء المسجدين عبد الملك بن مروان..وأوقف على نفقاتهما خراج مصر لمدة سبع سنين..أما قبة الصخرة فتم بناؤها سنة 70 هـ والمسجد الأقصى يبعد نحو 500 متر جنوب الصخرة وشرع في اقامته عبد الملك بعد بناء مسجد الصخرة..وتم بناؤه في عهد ابنه الوليد بن عبد الملك..
BETLAHEM CITY
مدينة بيت لحم
مدينة بيت لحم من المدن الفلسطينية العريقة حيث سكنها الكنعانيون العرب قبل 2000 سنة ق. م. إسمها الأقدم ” أقرات أو افراته” وتعني بالأرامية ” المثمر أو الخصب . “وعرفت باسم بيت ايلو لاهاما” وبيت لاخاما” نسبة إاى اله الطعام (لاهاما) وعند الكنعانيين (لخمو) . وفي الأرامية لخم أو لحم قرية متواضعة تكتنفها الوديان العميقة ، ويروى أن سيدنا يعقوب عليه السلام قد مر بها وهو في طريقه إلى الخليل ، وقد توفيت زوجته راحيل في مكان قريب منها يعرف اليوم باسم (قبة راحيل ) .
وقد أخذ اسم بيت لحم في الظهور بعد ولادة سيدنا المسيح عليه السلام فيها ، وقد أقيمت فوق المغارة التي ولد فيها عيسى عليه السلام كنيسة تعرف باسم ” كنيسة المهد” ، أقامتها هيلانة والدة قسطنطين ملك روما ، وذلك عام 330م ، وتعتبر من أقدم الكنائس في العالم حيث يحج إليها المسيحيون من كل أرجاء المعمورة .
تعد مدينة بيت لحم مركزا لقضاء يضم مدينتين بيت ساحور ، وبيت جالا ، وسبع قرى وأربع قبائل هم (السواحرة ، التعامرة ، ابن عبيد ، الرشايدة) إضافة إلى ثلاث مخيمات للاجئين هي الدهيشة ، العزة ، عايدة .
بلغت مساحة قضاء بيت لحم قبل النكبة عام 1948(6693)كم2 أما بعد النكبة فبلغت مساحته 580كم2 وبلغ عدد سكانه عام 1922 (24613) نسمة وعام 1945 (25171) نسمة وعام 1965 (63003) نسمة ، تقع مدينة بيت لحم على جبل يرتفع عن مستوى سطح البحر 789م وإلى جنوب القدس 10كم ، ويحدها من الشرق أراضي بيت ساحور ومن الغرب أراضي بيت جالا ومن الشمال أراضي قرية أرطاس . وهي ذات مناخ معتدل الحرارة صيفا بارد شتاء . ومساحتة أراضي بيت لحم بلغت 29799 دونما . وبلغ عدد السكان عام 1922 (5568) نسمة وعام 1945 (8820) نسمة وعام 1967 (16300) نسمة ووفقا للإحصاء الفلسطيني لعام 1997 فقد بلغوا (136517) نسمة . وتعتبر مدينة بيت لحم من أهم المدن السياحية في العالم حيث يزورها ويحج إليها المسيحيون طوال العام ، لاحتوائها على العديد من المعالم الأثرية مثل كنيسة المهد ، وكنيسة القديسة كاترينا ، وقبر راحيل ، وبرك سليمان وغيرها .
وفي هذه المدينة تقوم بعض الصناعات والتي ترتبط بالسياحية مثل صناعة الصوف ونحت الخشب وصناعة الأثاث المعدني وغيرها . وقد اشتركت بيت لحم ومنطقتها في جميع الثورات والمظاهرات التي شهدتها البلاد ضد الاحتلالين البريطاني والصهيوني ، وبعد النكبة دخلت هذه المدينة مع مدن الضفة الغربية تحت الحكم الأردني . ثم الاحتلال الصهيوني عام 1967 وكان في بيت لحم عامي 66/67 تسعة عشر مدرسة منها 4 مدارس حكومية وواحدة لوكالة الغوث والباقي مدارس خاصة .
تطوق بيت لحم مجموعة من المستعمرات والتي يطلق عليها مجموعة ” غوش عتسيون ” ووصل عددها في منطقة بيت لحم حنى عام 1985 (16) مستعمرة وأكبر هذه المستعمرات ومركزها ” مستعمرة افرات” ويخطط لإقامة (9) مستوطنات أخرى حتى عام 2010م.
RAFAH CITY
مدينة رفح
مدينة عربية من مدن قضاء غزة..تبعد عن ساحل البحر المتوسط نحو 5/6 خمسة أكيال ونص..وقد اكتسبت أهمية خاصة لكونها نقطة الحدود الفلسطينية الجنوبية مع مصر..وموقعها الطبيعي جعلها كذلك..فمن بعدها نحو الجنوب تقل الأمطار..وينتهي الخصب..وتبدأ الصحراء..وقد وردت في التاريخ بأسماء متعددة:فعند المصريين القدماء باسم”روبيهوى”..وعند الاشوريين”رفيحو”وعند اليونان”رافيا” وسماها العرب” رفح”..حررها العرب على يد عمرو بن العاص في زمن عمر بن الخطاب..ويصفها ياقتوت بأنها كانت في القرن السابع الهجري خرابا..ويذكر على المهلبي أنها كانت مدينة عامرة فيها سوق وجامع ومنبر فنادق وأهلها من لخم وجذام…وفيهم لصوصية واغارة على أمتعة الناس حتى أن كلاهم أضر كلاب أرض بسرقة ما يسرق مثله الكلاب…ويذكر بأنه كان على ثلاثة أميال من رفح شجر جميز مصطف بين جانبيي الطريق على اليمين والشمال نحو ألف شجرة متصلة أغصان بعضها ببعض مسيرة يومين..وعادت الى مسرح الحياة عندما مر بها نابليون أثناء حملته على الشام قادما من مصر سنة 1799م..وبعد ذلك بنحو مائة عام سنة 1898م زارها الخديوي اسماعيل..وزارها الخديوي عباس حلمي من أجل تعيين الحدود المصرية السورية..وأقر في هذه الزيارة بأن عمودي الغرانيت القائمين تحت شجرة السدر القديمة هما الحد الفاصل بين سورية ومصر..وحصل نزاع بين حكومة تركيا وبين مصر التي كانت تحتلها بريطانيا بشأن الحدود التي تفصل سيناء عن فلسطين سنة 1906 فقد كانت ترى تركيا أن مصر من أملاكها..واحتل جنود أتراك ” طابا” على خليج العقبة..ثم رضخت تركيا لطل بريطانيا وانسحبت من “طابا” وفي سنة 1917م احتل البريطانيون رفح وأخرجو العثمانيين منها..تبعد رفح نحو 38 كيلا جنوب غزة ونحو 13 كيلا جنوب خان يونس وترتفع نحو 48 م عن سطح البحرز.كانت في القديم تقسم الى قسمين رفح الشرقية ورفح الغربية..وفصل بينهما كثبان من الرمال..ومن أشهر قبائل رفح الشرقية: عشيرة قشطة..وأبو ضهير..وأما رفح الغربية فأشهر عشائرها عشيرة زعرب..ويعود معظم سكانها الى خان يونس والى بدو صحراء النقب وصحراء سينا حيث كانوا يأتون الى رفح أثناء المواسم الزراعية ثم يعودون ثم استقروا وبنوا مساكنهم.وكان يسكنها قبل الاسلام وبعده قبائل لخم وجذام العربية…وقد أصبحت الام متصلة العمران شرقيتها وغربيها..وعمرت الأرض كلها بالزراعة وخاصة البرتقال..وفيها مخيم كبير للاجئين..وبلغ عدد السكان سنة 1979م من اللاجئين وأهل البلد الأصليين حوالي 90 ألف نسمة..يعملون في الزراعة والتجارة..والمواصلي على بحر رفح لا تقل مكانتها عن مواصي خان يونس..حيث تكثر المياه وتجود الزراعة…
مدينة رفح
تقع مدينة رفح في أقصى الجنوب وتبعد عن مدينة غزة حوالي 35كم. وعن خان يونس 10كم. يحدها من الغرب البحر المتوسط ومن الشرق خط الهدنة عام 48 ومن الجنوب الحدود المصرية الفلسطينية. وتعتبر رفح من المدن التاريخية القديمة فقد أنشأت قبل خمس آلاف سنة وعرفت بأسماء عديدة. فقد عرفها الفراعنة باسم (روبيهوى) وأطلق عليها الآشوريون اسم (رفيحو) وأطلق عليها الرومان واليونان اسم (رافيا) وأطلق عليها العرب اسم رفح.
ومما زاد من أهميتها عبر التاريخ مرور خط السكة الحديدية الواصل بين القاهرة وحيفا في أراضيها وقد اقتلع هذا الخط بعد عام 1967.
قسمت مدينة رفح إلى شطرين بعد اتفاقية كامب ديفيد. حيث انفصلت رفح سيناء عن رفح الأم.
وتقدر مساحة ما ضم إلى الجانب المصري حوالي 4000 دونم وبقي من مساحة أراضيها 15500 دونم اقتطع منها حوالي 3500 دونم للمستعمرات.
تبلغ المساحة المزروعة في رفح حوالي 7500 دونم تزرع مختلف أنواع المزروعات كالحمضيات واللوزيات والخضروات.
وقُدر عدد سكانها
• عام 1922 حوالي (599) نسمة.
• وفي عام 1945 (2220) نسمة.
• وفي عام 1967 (10800) نسمة من السكان الأصليين.
تأسست في المدينة أول مدرسة ابتدائية عام 1936 وتطورت الحركة التعليمية بشكل ملحوظ وفتحت العديد من المدارس لجميع المراحل الدراسية.
صادرت سلطات الإحتلال مساحات شاسعة من اراضيها.
وأقامت عليها مستعمرة (موراج) عام 1987.
ومستعمرة غوش قطيف التي تفصل بين مدينة رفح وشاطئ البحر.
ومستعمرة نباي اتزمون عام 1979.
ومستعمرة بيدولة عام 1986.
ومستعمرة رفيح يام عام 1986. بيات سارح عام 1989
GAZA HISTORY
المدن السياحية:
غزة
الموقع والتسمية
في الجزء الجنوبي من الساحل الشرقي للبحر المتوسط تقع مدينة غزة، وقد جاء موقعها عند التقاء إقليمين جغرافيين متباينين، إقليم البحر المتوسط بمناخه المعتدل وأراضيه الخصبة ومياهه العذبة، والإقليم الصحراوي الجاف، وأراضيه ذات الرمال المتحركة، وهي بهذا تحتل موقعاً ذا أهمية كبيرة، فهي تقع على أبرز الطرق التجارية القديمة، حيث تتجمع فيها التجارة القادمة من الهند، وحضرموت واليمن ومكة، لتنتقل فيما بعد إلى دمشق وتدمر، وباقي مناطق الشام، وزادت أهميتها الاقتصادية فيما بعد، خصوصاً بعد إنشاء خط سكة حديد القنطرة- حيفا، ماراً بغزة، ويواصل هذا الخط طريقه إلى لبنان وسوريا وتركيا.
وغزة كلمة كنعانية عربية وقد قيل في معناها أقوال منها أن غزة تعني خص، فيقول ياقوت الحموي في كتابه معجم البلدان: اغتز فلان بفلان أي اختصه من بين أصحابه، وقد قيل أيضاً أن غزة تعني القوة أو المنعة، وسماها الكنعانيون باسم هزاني، والعبرانيون غزة، وسماها المصريون القدماء باسم غازاتو وغاداتو، وسماها الأشوريون عزاتي، وسماها الفرس هازانوت بمعنى الكنز، وأعطيت عبر العصور المختلفة أسماء عديدة منها، أيوني ومينودا وقسطنديا إلا أن غزة احتفظت باسمها العربي التي ما زالت محتفظة به حتى الآن.
غزة عبر التاريخ :
مدينة غزة قديمة قدم التاريخ فهي وليدة عصور متتالية وقرون طويلة، تركت بصماتها فيها، وتركت هي أيضاً بصماتها على مدى السنين وتوالي الأيام، وكان من أقدم. من سكن غزة من القبائل الكنعانية هم الأليقيم كما سكنها منهم بطون المعنيين، وهم أول من ارتادها وغشي أسواقها من العرب الأوائل، ويذكر بعض المؤرخين أن المعينين هم أول من أسسوا مدينة غزة بعد اكتشاف أهمية موقعها، وأهمية الطرق المؤدية إليها، والخارجة منها وبعد المعينين أخذ السبأيون يؤمون غزة بقوافلهم التجارية، ومن أقدم من استوطن غزة العويون ثم الكنعانيون ثم العناقيون كما استوطنها المديانيون والأدوميون والعموريون والكنعانيون وغيرهم إلا أن الكنعانيين هم أول من سكنوها وحافظوا على وجودها وتركوا بصماتهم على تاريخها الطويل، وسجل التاريخ بأن الكنعانيين هم العرب الأوائل الذين يرجعون بأنسابهم إلى العمالقة، وجاءت هجرتهم مد للموجات السامية التي أخذت طريقها إلى البلاد، ويذكر المؤرخون أن مدينة غزة يعود تاريخها إلى 4000- 3500 سنة قبل الميلاد.
وقد سميت فلسطين في ذلك الوقت بأراضي كنعان، كانت غزة تمثل الحد الجنوبي من أرض كنعان التي امتدت إلى الشمال في عكا وصيدا، وعلى طول الساحل أقيمت المدن الكنعانية المحاطة بالأسوار وشيدوا حضارة عظمى، عرفت التجارة والصناعة والتعدين، كما اخترعوا الحروف الهجائية، ووضعوا الشرائع والقوانين، وعبد الكنعانيون الأصنام، ومن أصنامهم بعل أو السيد وهو الإله الذي اشتهرت به غزة عندما كانت عبادة الأوثان هي السائدة.
وكان الكنعانيون ماهرين في فنون الحرب، وتميزوا بالجرأة لدرجة أنهم ثاروا على ملوك مصر مثل رعمسيس الثاني والمشهور باسم سيزو سترس أو رعمسيس الأكبر، وهو أعظم من ملك مصر بالحكمة والبطش مدة طويلة، وقاوم الكنعانيون الغزوة العبرية، مما أثار حفيظة الإسرائيليين، فتناولوهم كثيراً في أشعارهم لكثرة ما بطشوا بهم كما ذكروا غزة كثيراً فقالوا في الإصحاح الثاني من سفر صفينا إن غزة تكون متروكة، واشكلون للخراب.
ولقد كان لغزة شأن مع المصريين القدماء والفراعنة، حيث عبر الكثير من ملوك مصر الفراعنة، إما لفتحها أو للانطلاق منها لفتح الشام، وكانت ذات أهمية خاصة لهم، وكانت في عهد الأسرة الثامنة عشر والتاسعة عشر المقر الرئيسي للجيش المصري المحتل لفلسطين، واتخذها تحتمس قاعدة لهجومه، ثم خضعت غزة لسيطرة الهكسوس بعد أن تمنعت عنهم مدة طويلة، عندما كانت تأخذ موقعاً عند تل العجول، حيث كان البحر قريباً من المدينة، والسفن ترسوا على شواطئها، واستوطنها الهكسوس استعداداً لهجومهم على مصر، وشهدت غزة نوعاً من الازدهار في عهدهم، قبل طردهم من قبل المصريين، وقد عثر على كثير من الآثار التي تدل على هذه الحقبة من تاريخ غزة، تضمن حلي ذهبية وكنوز ثمينة.
ثم خضعت مدينة غزة للفلسطينيين، وهم شعب جاء من البحر المتوسط، وأسسوا خمس ممالك، وكانت غزة إحداها، أما الأربعة الأخرى فهي عسقلان- اسدود- وجت وعفرون، وقد أطلق اسم فلسطين على أرض كنعان نسبة إلى هذه القبائل، وحارب الفلسطينيون الغزاة الإسرائيليين، وحالوا دون سيطرتهم على المدن الفلسطينية، وكان للفلسطينيين مراكب وعربات الخيول وبرعوا في صناعة المحاريث والآلات المنزلية، وكانت لهم ديانة، ومن أشهر هياكلهم الآلهة داجوان.
ثم تعرضت مدينة غزة لحكم الأشوريين، وكان ذلك في عهد ملكهم تبغلات بلازر الأول، ودارت معارك متعددة بين المصريين والأشوريين، حيث تحالف أهلها مع المصريين، ثم جاء الملك سرجت، وتمكن من إخضاعها، وأسر ملكها حانون عام 720 ق م، وقد سميت غزة آنذاك باسم مارنا أو سيدنا، وظلت خاضعة للأشوريين حتى عام 609 ق م، حيث أعادها الملك نيخو الثاني المصري إلى حظيرة المملكة المصرية بقوة السلاح.
وبعد ذلك خضعت غزة لحكم البابليين، وكان أول من هاجمها منهم الملك سرجون الأكادي، ثم ابنه كارام سين، إلا أن حكمهم لم يدم طويلاً لتمكن المصريين من استرداد المدينة ولكنهم تراجعوا تحت ضغط البابليين، وخضعت غزة مرة ثانية للبابليين.
في عام 535 ق.م خضعت غزة لحكم الفرس في عهد ملكهم قنبيز، واتخذوها موقعاً حربياً ومنطلقا لتحركاتهم نحو مصر، ومنحت غزة إدارة مستقلة ضمن التشكيلات الإدارية التي أحدثتها الفرس على فلسطين، ثم خضعت غزة للحكم اليوناني في عهد الإسكندر الأكبر المقدوني عام 332 ق م. بعد أن حاصرها مدة طويلة، لأنها استعصت عليه، وأصبحت مدينة عظيمة، وشجع عدد من اليونانيين لإقامة فيها والاختلاط بأهلها، وانتشرت اللغة اليونانية في البلاد، وأصبحت لغة البلاد الرسمية، ولغة العلم والمدارس، ثم خضعت المدينة لحكم الرومان عام 96ق م، وكانت غزة تدار رأساً من إمبراطور الرومان عن طريق مندوب سامي، وقد أقام الرومان مصانع لسك النقود في غزة، وكانت هذه النقود تحمل اسم غزة على وجه، والحرف M على الوجه الآخر، إشارة إلى الصنم المعبود مارنا، وحملت بعض النقود صور انطوينوس وعلى الوجه الآخر صنم الحظ تيخافون، وظهرت صور أخرى على أنواع العملة المسكوكة في غزة، وازدهرت التجارة والعمران في عهد الرومان الذين أعادوا بناءها.
وتشير كتب التاريخ إلى صلابة شعب غزة وتمسكه الدائم بما ورثه، وحفاظه على قوميته وكرهه للغزاة، وكانت غزة في العهد القديم من معاقل الوثنية، حيث كان يوجد فيها ثماني هياكل وثنيه، عدا الأصنام الكثيرة التي كانت موجود في البيوت والقصور، بالإضافة إلى الاله داجون، وهو من الآلهة التي عبدها سكان غزة في العهود الغابرة ولا سيما عهد الفلسطينيين، وعند ظهور المسيحية بلغ العداء أشده بين الوثنيين والمسيحيين عام 395 ق.م عندما تولى الأسقفية فيها بروفيريوس الذي واصل جهوده لنشر المسيحية بعد أن حصل على تأييد الإمبراطورة افدوكسيا التي أقرت بإغلاق المعابد الوطنية، وفعلاً تم إغلاق وهدم المعابد في عملية استغرقت 10 أيام.
وفي عام 634 ق.م فتحت مدينة غزة من قبل العرب المسيحيين على يد القائد أبي أمامة الباهلي بعد معركة الدمثية – داثن.
وأقام العرب المسيحيون في غزة الحصون التي أنشأوها على السواحل، وكانوا يسمونها الرباطات، وأنشئ في غزة العديد منها، والرباط نوع من مراكز المراقبة.
وفي عام 1100م ثم احتلال مدينة غزة من قبل الصليبيين بقيادة جودفري، وقد حاول الصليبيون طمس أهمية غزة التجارية، إذ جعلوا عسقلان المركز الرئيسي للنصرانية في فلسطين، ولم يعتنوا بها من الناحية العسكرية، واستمر ذلك حتى عام 1149 عندما أمر الملك الصليبي بلدوين الثالث بإعادة تحصين غزة، فهدم أسوارها القديمة وبني فيها سوراً جديداً عادت غزة للحكم الإسلامي عام 1187م بعد انتصار المسلمين بقيادة صلاح الدين الأيوبي على الصليبيين في موقعه حطين، ثم عادت غزة ثانية إلى حكم الصليبيين، إلا أن القائد بيبرس تمكن من هزيمة الصليبيين في معركة غزة الثانية، والتي كانت لها أكبر الأثر في طرد الصليبيين من فلسطين، حتى أن بعض المؤرخين أطلقوا عليها حطين الثانية.
ثم تعرضت غزة للغزو المغولي المدمر إلا أن المسلمين تمكنوا من هزيمتهم على يد القائد ركن الدين بيبرس عام 1260م في موقعة عين جالوت، وتم طرد المغول نهائياً من فلسطين.
وهكذا فإن غزة كانت في عهد المماليك محطة للسلاطين يمرون منها في كل غزوة ضد الصليبيين، أو المغول، فأصبحت من أهم مراكز البريد، وقد زارها سلاطين المماليك والكثير من الرحالة.
ثم خضعت غزة للحكم العثماني بعد انتصار العثمانيين على المماليك، في موقعه مرج دابق عام 1516م، ولعبت دوراً هاما إبان الحكم العثماني وكانت في أغلب الأوقات سنجقاً أو لواء في ولاية الشام.
وفي عام 1799م، احتلها نابليون بونابرت قائد الحملة الفرنسية على مصر وبلاد الشام، كما دخلت تحت الحكم المصري عام 1831 بعد أن أرسل محمد على إلى مصر حملة إلى بلاد الشام بقيادة ابنه إبراهيم باشا وانسحب عام 1841م.
وفي عام 1917م دخلت غزة تحت الحكم البريطاني، واستمرت كذلك حتى عام 1948 حيث خضعت للإدارة المصرية، وفي عام 1956 وقعت تحت الاحتلال الإسرائيلي نتيجة العدوان الثلاثي وعادت عام 1957 الى الإدارة المصرية وفي عام 1967 وقعت تحت الاحتلال الإسرائيلي في أعقاب حرب الخامس من حزيران 1967، وفي عام 1994 غادر جنود الاحتلال الإسرائيلي مدينة غزة لتتولى إدارة المدينة السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية إثر اتفاقات أوسلو.
وطوال هذا التاريخ الطويل كانت غزة جزءاً من الوطن الفلسطيني، شاركت في جميع الثورات ضد البريطانيين واليهود أعوام 1929، 1936، 1948، ثم تعرضت لعدوان 1956 و1967 وقد تعرض أهالي مدينة غزة لممارسات المحتلين من قتل وتشريد ونسف للمنازل.
السكان والنشاط الاقتصادي:
تعرض سكان غزة إلى التذبذب بين الزيادة والنقصان، حيث قدر عدد سكان مدينة غزة عام 1840م نحو 2000 نسمة، وأصبح العدد في مطلع القرن العشرين26000 نسمة وقبل الحرب العالمية الأولى وصل إلى 32000 نسمة، انخفض بشكل حاد بعد الحرب ليصل إلى 4000 نسمة، ثم عاد للارتفاع ليصل إلى 17000 نسمة عام 1927، و19695 نسمة عام 1938 ووصل إلى 40000 نسمة عام 1947، ثم ارتفع بشكل كبير بعد عام 1946 بسبب تدفق أعداد كبيرة من اللاجئين فوصل عدد سكان مدينة غزة إلى 102431 نسمة عام 1954 وتوالت بعد ذلك الزيادات السكانية لمدينة غزة.
وقد مارس سكان مدينة غزة العديد من الأنشطة أهمها:
الزارعة: وقد حاولت مدينة غزة أن تنهض باقتصادها الزراعي لدرجة أنها كانت تصدر كميات كبيرة من إنتاجها كالشعير التي صدرت منه 18616 طناً عام 1930 على الرغم من عدم تشجيع حكومة الانتداب البريطاني لهذا المحصول.
وكانت غزة مشهورة بزيتها وزيتونها، وكان زيتها يصدر إلى الخارج وإلى سائر المدن الفلسطينية بكميات كبيرة، حيث انتشرت غابات الزيتون حول مدينة غزة إلا أن الجيش التركي قطع حوالي 95% من أشجار الزيتون لاستعمال حطبها للوقود بدلاً من الفحم الحجري في تسيير القطارات.
ولذلك أصبحت غزة من أقل المدن إنتاجاً للزيتون وزيته، وبالإضافة إلى الزيتون كان هناك أشجار النخيل والكروم والبساتين والخضراوات.
الصناعة: واشتهرت مدينة غزة بالعديد من الصناعات، أهمها صناعة النسيج، حيث كانت تنسج الصوف وقد وجد في غزة عام 1943 44 نولاً تنسج البسط والعباءات و 20 نولاً لنسج الأقمشة القطنية والحريرية المستعملة في الأبنية البلدية والريفية، وقد لعبت هذه الصناعة دوراً كبيراً أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية وانصراف المواطنين إلى الصناعات المحلية.
وبالإضافة إلى صناعة النسيج كان هناك صناعة الفخار، حيث كان يصدر فخارها إلى سائر المدن الفلسطينية، وصناعة الجلود والدباغة، واستخراج الكبريت من منطقة المشبه على بعد 6 كم جنوب شرق غزة، حيث ثم استخراج 422 طناً عام 1936، إلا أن المصنع توقف أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية، ولم يعمل منذ ذلك التاريخ، وهناك صناعات أخرى مثل صنع الملابس والحلويات وغيرها.
أما بعد عام 1946م فقد تطور النشاط الاقتصادي كماً ونوعاً، ففي مجال الزراعة أصبحت الحمضيات هي القطاع الأهم الذي يحقق دخلاً، حيث وصلت المساحة المزروعة بالحمضيات عام 1966 حوالي 70000 دونم، وقد مارست إسرائيل ضغوطاً على هذا المحصول بعد احتلالها للمدينة عام 1967م، فبعد أن وصل الإنتاج عام 1975-1976 إلى 237.100 طن انخفض ليصبح 153000 طن عام 1983، وذلك بسبب الممارسات الإسرائيلية المتمثلة في قطع الأشجار وعدم السماح بزراعة مساحات جديدة من أشجار الحمضيات، حيث لم تشهد سنوات الاحتلال أي نشاط صناعي، كما أنها عملت على إجهاض أي محاولة لتطوير الصناعات المحلية.
كما اعتمد قطاع من سكان غزة على الصيد رغم القوانين المجحفة التي اتخذتها اسرائيل للحد من ممارسة هذه المهنة من قبل سكان غزة.
النشاط الثقافي في مدينة غزة:
كان في غزة في نهاية الانتداب البريطاني ست مدارس حكومية، اثنتان منها للبنات وأربع للبنين، بالإضافة إلى التعليم الأهلي مثل كلية غزة التي تأسست عام 1942 على يد الأخوين شفيق ووديع ترزي، وكان لها دور فعال في بعث وتنشيط الحركة الثقافية، حيث عمدت الكلية إلى إقامة مهرجان ثقافي سنوي، تقدم فيه الإبداعات مثل الشعر والخطابة والتمثيل وفي الفترة من 1948-1967 شهد التعليم إقبالاً كبيراً من أبناء قطاع غزة، حيث ذهب أبناء غزة بالآلاف إلى الجامعات وتخرج منهم العديد من المهندسين والأطباء والأكاديميين الذين انتشروا في العالم العربي، وكانوا مصدر دخل للقطاع إلا أنه بعد احتلال قطاع غزة، فإن الأوضاع التعليمية شهدت نوعاً من التردي، نظراً لممارسات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي، حيث عملت السلطات الإسرائيلية على تشويه وتخريب المناهج الدراسية، واعتقال المعلمين والطلاب، وعدم دعم المدارس بالمدرسين الأكفاء، بالإضافة إلى المعاناة المادية التي تعانيها مؤسسات التعليم والتي أثرت على سير العملية التعليم، كعدم توفر المباني والمختبرات والتجهيزات – ..الخ.
أما عن الحركة الثقافية، فقد اعتمد سكان غزة على الصحف اليومية التي كانت تصدر من يافا والقدس، والتي كان لها الدور الإعلامي الهام والرئيس، خاصةً في مراحل الثورات وتحريك الجماهير وتعبئتها، ومن هذه الصحف جريدة الدفاع – جريدة القدس- جريدة الوحدة، ومجلة الحقوق، وحقوق الحق، وصحيفة الوطن العربي.
وبالإضافة إلى الصحافة كان هناك مجموعة من الأندية التي كان لها دور في الحركة الثقافية في مدينة غزة مثل:
النادي الرياضي: الذي تأسس عام 1934 على يد رشاد الشوا، والنادي القومي الذي أسسه فائق بسيسو عام 1936، ونادي الشباب العربي الذي تأسس عام 1942 على يد منير الريس، والنادي الشعبي الذي أسسه جمال الصوراني عام 1946، والنادي الأرثوذكسي العربي الذي أسسه اسكندر فرح عام 1944، أما جمعيات المرأة فيوجد العديد منها، فقدت تأسست جمعية الاتحاد النسائي العربي بغزة عام 1946 وجمعية النهضة النسائية وجمعية التقدم النسائي، وكانت لهذه الجمعيات دور كبير في توعية المرأة، بالإضافة إلى الاشتراك في المظاهرات والأنشطة السياسة.
كما توجد في غزة جمعية الشبان المسيحية التي تقوم بالكثير من النشاطات الفنية والثقافية والرياضية.
معالم المدينة
تضم مدينة غزة عدة أحياء وهي:
حي الدرج -وحي الزيتون- وحي الشجاعية -وحي التفاح – وحي الرمال- وتنشر فيها العديد من المعالم الأثرية والعمرانية مثل:
1. الجامع العمري الكبير في حي الدرج، وهي من الجوامع العظمي في فلسطين، ضخم البناء، كبير القيمة الأثرية.
2. جامع السيد هاشم، ويقع في حي الدرج، ومدفون فيه هاشم بن عبد مناف جد الرسول عليه الصلاة والسلام، أنشئ في عهد المماليك.
3. جامع ابن عثمان ويقع في حي الشجاعية، ويأتي بعد الجامع العمري الكبير، من حيث الحجم ومتانة البناء.
4. جامع كاتب الولاية، ويقع في حي الزيتون.
5. جامع الشمعة، ويقع في حارة الزيتون.
6. جامع ابن مروان، ويقع في حي التفاح.
7. جامع المحكمة، ويقع في حي الشجاعية.
8. جامع الشيخ عبد الله الأيبكي، ويقع في حي التفاح.
ومن المعالم المسيحية:
1. كنيسة الروم الأرثوذكسي، وبنيت عام 425م.
2. كنيسة اللاتين، وبنيت عام 1879م.
3. كنيسة البروتستانت وبنيت عام 1887.
وجميعها تقع في حي الزيتون.
أما من حيث المعالم الأثرية فهناك:
1. تل العجول، ويقع جنوب غرب غزة، وهو موضع مدينة غزة قديماً.
2. ميناء غزة “ميوى” أقيمت في العهد الرومان.
3. خربة أم التوت.
4. تل النفيد أو تل الصنم.
وقد عثر فيها على الكثير من الآثار التي تدل على النشاط العربي القديم، ومن المعالم العمرانية :
1. قيصرية غزة- سوق الذهب- ويقع عند الباب الشمالي .
2. حمام السمرة.
ISRAEL ATTACKED GAZA TODAY
Posted on February 28, 2011 by Omar Karem
Israel Tanks Entered Gaza Today February 28, 2011 their aims to Close the Roads that Connect Egypt and Rafah Gaza, Palestine
yesterday they attacked some people in Magazi camp no death were reported .
Israel now trying to take the time to make something inhumane in Gaza. Trying to inflict fear into the people, that are gathering together to end the internal divisions.
For the last few weeks the unrest can be felt in Palestine as all the people are Uniting to reconciled their differences between their views on the conflict and the aim of Israel to keep the division alive.
All the people inside Palestine and outside are raising their voices for ONE PALESTINE, There is one road to peace, Israel must end the occupation and Palestine be one Nation.
The US and the UN Club need to come to the realization that their support for Israel needs to end if they want to build lasting peace in the Middle East. As the situation is the middle east is concern the people are taking their lands back and the US needs to see itself isolated in its attempt to keep the dictators in place.
Israel is the only danger that we see in the middle east and in the world. Their lobbyists groups around the world are finally exposed and and there is no secrecy.
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