A recent study by Noga Kadman found that eighty-six destroyed Palestinian villages were inside the JNF forests.
Ja, for meg en sterk, høystemt leseopplevelse, hentet og leste boken i går.
naturen
tillet ikkje tomrom
når noko vik, vil anna veksa
stien mellom orda
glatte steinar inst i minnet
rognebærtreet har greiner tunge av hjartesyljer
In 1948 the rape of Arab women and girls was not a rare or isolated act committed by individual forces, but rather was used deliberately as an instrument to terrorise the civilian population and push people into fleeing their homes.
"The world is bearing witness to a blatant act of genocide."
"In this episode, 'If I Must Die' by Palestinian poet Refat Al Arir, whose work powerfully voices the struggles and resilience of Palestinians."
- If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer/ Words That Burn, (anbefalt lenke).
"Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948." Noga Kadman, (anbefalt lenke).
The use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by Jewish forces in 1948 as weapons of war and instruments of ethnic cleansing has yet to be studied. In 1948 the rape of Arab women and girls was not a rare or isolated act commited by individual forces, but rather was used deliberately as an instrument to terrorise the civilian population and push people into fleeing their homes.
The evidence surrounding the Galilee expulsions shows clearly the existence of a pattern of actions characterised by a large number of massacres deigned to intimidate the population into flight.
"Luigi Daniele, Associate Professor of Internatjonal Humanitarian and Criminal Law at the University of Molise, discusses the potensial legal and political fallout from revelations."
Zionist methods have not only dispossessed the Palestinians of their own land; they have also attemted to deprive Palestinians of their voice and their knowledge of their own history.
Don't ever be suprised
to see a rose shoulder up
among the ruins of the house:
This is how we survived.
"Mosab Abu Toha is an astonishingly gifted young poet from Gaza, almost a seer with his eloquent lyrical vernacular, his visions of life, continuity, time, possibility, and beauty.
His poems break my heart and awaken it, at the same time. I feel I have been waiting for his work all my life."
The immigrant-settler nation-state of Israel is a blatantly racist state, regarding its indigenous people - once by far the overwhelming majority population of historic Palestine - as less than human, as disposable, expendable and 'transferable'.
It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless water
where small islands
are only beginning
to cope
a young boy
in my garden
is bailing out water
from his flower patch
when I ask him why
he tells me
young seeds that have not seen sun
forget
and drown easily.
If you come as softly
As wind within the trees
You may hear what I hear
See what sorrow sees.