2008 ~~ 60 YEARS OF ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Image 'Copyleft' by Carlos Latuff
SIXTY YEARS IS WAY TOO LONG FOR THIS TO HAVE GONE ON ~~ PALESTINE MUST BE FREE NOW!
May 15th, 1948, was the Palestinian Al-Nakba (the Catastrophe), or what Israel refers to as the “Day of Independence.” To Palestinians, it symbolizes the dispossession, displacement, and uprooting of 800,000 Palestinians from their homes in what then became Israel. Many of these refugees and their descendants, who now number more than 4 million, still languish in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and surrounding Arab countries. While Al-Nakba embodies the first major wave of forced expulsion of Palestinians from their land, Israel’s premeditated campaign of ethnic cleansing continues to this very day.
posted by Desert Peace @ 11:49 PM
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7 Comments:
Several years ago I read back to back My Life by Golda Meir (1975) and In Search of Identity: An Autobiography by Anwar Sadat (1978) just to compare these two political leaders' renditions of the same era and locale in two political autobiographical histories.
I only read older books for their sweetness in vintage that provides some real truths easily ferretable by a clear distance from my own common delusions. Or at least that is my logic.
These two works, the one by Meir and the other by Sadat are on the extreme newness fringe of what I will bother to read.
As an example I am currently seeking out True Intellectual System of the Universe by Ralph Cudworth (1668). There will no doubt be some precious and uncommon grain of truth therein.
I've no doubt former Prime Minister of Israel's work would be condemned by many super-nationalists in Israel today, if there are that many so I might think properly as many.
Her work is somewhat otherwise skewed and condescending apologia for the creation of Israel on Palestinian land by what were clearly a bunch of wild-eyed generally socialist Europeans off on the post-WWII lark of their lives seeking a sort of historically stretched Alex Haley Roots for what were mostly Yiddish refugees fleeing more a war torn and economically collapsed, but liberated Europe, more than anyone was fleeing a Holocaust too quickly and gratefully forgotten at the end of the long war.
The pictures remind me of Andersonville here in the U.S. during our Civil War.
I similarly have no doubt why Sadat was assassinated for his own willingness to cross the hot, sandy distance with a hand outstretched in friendship and a desire for his own chance, for once, at a lark in his own trial-filled life.
For me, a Scot descendent born after the Great War and the advent of Isreal, living out an upper-middle class existence in the U.S. taught closely the merit of toleration and never having known either persecution or war, these two works could only provide a reality for me as they contrasted one another.
I don't know if anyone in Israel or Egypt can understand that. That I have never felt persecution, war or felt so much threatened by circumstances as they must have always felt.
Sixty years is indeed a long time.
I would think everyone would either be pretty tired of it, or that they would have grown so used to it, it would seem normal.
Well... It's not normal.
Don Robertson,The American Philosopher
Even when all that remains is an Iron key there is still a Palestine.
Palestine is Coming.
Awesome post, Steve. Special congratulations to Carlos to create such a striking drawing. So terribly sad but true.
For all the money we give Israel to kill Palestinians, we could buy each Palestinian a new life away from Israel. Fidel Castro was "Al-Nakba" for educated Cubans, but their best choice was going to Florida, USA. Palestinians should do likewise and we should help them.
You got that right palistain must be free
the world is not pickin it up they some think and do some think els
freedom is coming weather world like it or not
It has been 60 years too long!
Best wishes to you this new year friend!
800 000 to 4m palestinians in 60 years. I guess that Israel is not so good at ethnic cleansing.
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