My prayer is that
Someone
Someday
Soon
Will invent the ultimate weapon
The weapon that renders
ALL weapons
Dysfunctional and useless
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THINK ALGERIA . . . THINK LIBERATION
Posted on November 2, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Our problem is that most people who are learning about the Palestinian cause and are willing to help and support, are generally very principled and compassionate people.
From this perspective, they create a paradigm which fits their model of what they know about human societies.
They project their own feelings and understanding of the world, and innocently assume that “equal rights for all” under “one state” is actually the best solution.
That my friends would work in NORMAL circumstances, when we deal with people of similar mentality, i.e humanists and who believe in inclusiveness, multiculturalism and equality of mankind.
This is not the case in Palestine.
There we have a majority of SUPREMACISTS, EXCLUSIVISTS who believe they are the “chosen”.
They believe the rest of mankind are their slaves”.
Believing that they might one day accept Palestinians as equals is like believing that if we mix a cup of water hard enough, long enough, it will turn to a nice cup of coffee
One day soon, my friends, you will come to realize that just like the two states, the delusion of “one state” will also drop dead.
This is one main reason I have been warning and writing about the role of their ideology, without understanding of which, Palestinians and their supporters would continue to run like hamsters in a mill, exhausted to no avail.
We cannot devise appropriate strategy, unless we have defined aims which comes from clear understanding of the problem.
Friends who promote a “one state”, are not aware of the serious, nay catastrophic implications on Palestinians.
The major issue remains about OWNERSHIP RIGHTS of the STOLEN LANDS, as well as the APPARATUS of POWER which is, and will REMAIN in the hands of ideologically racist Jewish “israelis”
The ENTIRE LAND of PALESTINE was STOLEN.
No amount of soft persuasion is going to make ultra Jewish Zionist give an inch of it back.
Why can’t people see this is beyond me!
The one state means in plain language:
1) Inviting the Zionist entity to ANNEX and OCCUPY what is left of Palestine.
2) Blessing the invaders with the “right” to keep the LOOT of whatever they have captured through wars of conquest and aggression.
3) Enabling the invaders to ENLARGE and EXPAND their entity, a small step towards a “greater israel”.
4) Embracing the finalization of the Zionist project.
5) Campaigning to upgrade the Palestinians’ status from “occupied” to “slaves”, living under the boot of Jewish supremacists who see Palestinians and other goyim as animals created only to serve Jews.
Are we so naive to engage promoting such insanity?
No alternative to the Algerian model of FULL LIBERATION.
So friends, THINK ALGERIA … It has only been few decades ago since Algeria gained its liberation from French SETTLER COLONIZATION, which lasted almost 150 years.
When I talk about the Algerian model I mean:
REVOKING ISRAEL’S UN MEMBERSHIP: The racist genocidal occupation entity, which was in breach of UN Charters, which has violated and defied more UN resolutions and charter principles than any other. This illegitimate entity has no moral or legal ground whatsoever to be a member of the UN. Its membership is a disgrace on the face of humanity and a mockery of International Law. Israel’s UN membership should have never happened in the first place.
FULL SOVEREIGNTY of the Palestinian Nation over their ancestral country: Palestine, with a constitution and a political system of their own independent choice. That is least that can be done to compensate for the a century of aggression, thievery, and unwarranted subjugation.
PROSECUTION OF WAR CRIMINALS: plans of which should start immediately without delay, A Palestinian JUDICIARY and IMMIGRATION System, will respectively prosecute former “Israeli” criminals and their associates, and/or grant or decline on an individual basis, a RIGHT TO REMAIN, based on criteria solely to be defined by said Immigration and Integration Services, which would take into consideration the history of the individuals and the level of their participation in maintaining the occupation.
NATIONALISATION AND PALESTINIAN CITIZENSHIP: anyone who can prove non-participation in the ex-Israeli occupation apparatus, and who has demonstrated ability and willingness to a respectable and law-abiding conduct, will probably obtain a chance to gain unrestricted Palestinian citizenship, with equal rights… Jewish “Israelis” also have the right to go back to wherever country they came from, the have the same right to return to their native countries.
RETURN, RESTITUTION AND COMPENSATIONS: Palestine and the Palestinian Nation at large, are entitled to full and unconditional Restitution of their land and property whenever possible, assorted with appropriate Compensation for more than seven decades of deprivation and slow genocide, Cultural destruction, and a whole array of atrocities and usurpation..
It is pretty obvious that the model I propose will not be welcomed by “israelis”, nor will it come about by the “return” to negotiation no matter how intense the rounds may become. It will not happen by “road maps” either, nor by sudden change of heart coupled with pure acts of kindness and generosity of “israelis”
RESISTANCE, is the keyword.
Moreover, “israel” cannot afford peace; it relies on wars, wars and more wars for its very internal survival.
“israel” cannot afford to live even for a moment of real permanent peace, simply because its INTERNAL SURVIVAL requires an ever present “EXTERNAL THREAT”, which allows that incohesive assortment of people to stick together and prevents that society from imploding from within.
That society is divided more than anyone could imagine. But its ills are concealed by an utterly exaggerated bordering mythical history of persecution, and an extremely terrifying future with a holocaust around every corner and a new Hitler popping his head in different country each time. Thus turning their present into a perpetual war-preparation and being in a permanent standby state.
Furthermore, in such state of affairs, i.e with this need for wars to stay alive, there is another crucial component, “israel” cannot afford to lose any of its wars. Any loss for “israel” is an END GAME…. GAME OVER.
Logically speaking:
1) If “israel” gets peace ===> “israel” would implode from within ===> GAME OVER
2) If “israe” continues wars of aggression ===> For it to survive, “israel” must win every single war ===>
“israel” is bound to lose one war ===> GAME OVER
For them, it is simply a lose lose situation… For us, to gain liberation, it is only a matter of time and patience, and Palestinians have got plenty of both.
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Ideological Institutionalised Supremacy
Posted on October 31, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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Architect of Apartheid in Israel:
“If we don’t kill, we will cease to exist”
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Ethnic Cleansing and the Israeli “Center “
“now you start to see where the supposed center and the far right really line up, and it’s not just the center, it’s EVERYONE ALL THE WAY to merits, to the EXTREME END OF THE ZIONIST LEFT, they REJECT THE IDEA THAT ISRAEL IS A STATE FOR ALL ITS CITIZENS and they all engaged in this mock debate which really is over the size of the cage Palestinian will live in, jumbo size, or small, because they ALL AGREE ISRAEL HAS TO ENGINEER A JEWISH DEMOGRAPHIC MAJORITY against the will of the indigenous Palestinian population, the question is how to do it” ~~~ Max Blumenthal author of Goliath – Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.
Bearing this in mind, as well as acknowledging the ideological supremacy amongst “israeli” Jews, the question which begs an answer is: why do many of the Jewish anti-Zionist left continue to deceive Palestinians into believing that “one state for all” is what they should pursue as the best solution, instead of FULL LIBERATION?
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Role and Racism of Jewish communities
Posted on October 31, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Beit Iksa… My village
Posted on October 30, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Just 5 miles away from the heart of Jerusalem, my besieged village has been converted to a concentration camp, where villagers are entrapped with only one access to the outside world, through an international-border-like checkpoint. The original road which connected Beit Iksa to Jerusalem through Beit Hanina has been permanently blocked, No one is allowed to enter except people from the village.
There is about 1200 people living in Beit Iksa, on an ever shrinking land due to military confiscation, but the vast majority (estimated 10000) are still living in exile, prevented from returning home by the Jewish-Zionist occupation.
The village was attacked in 1948, forcing the villagers out into refugee camps, leaving the old village centre completely destroyed, while the looting and burning the rest.
The villagers were able to return back to their half destroyed village after cease fire in 1949. My mother at the time was seven years old.
In 1967, a war to which I was an eyewitness, aged also seven years old, my village was ethnically cleansed for the second time, but this time those of us who evacuated in search of safety were never allowed back.
As the village was under heavy bombardment, the villagers with their fresh memories of the echoing cries of slaughtered families of Deir Yassin, panicked and started fleeing in all directions.
A group of families ended up in a nearby village, Beit Duqou, where we were kept for six days, in what I thought to be an underground shelter – only to find out 35 years later that it was a big tomb in the village grave yard.
My father who was in Syria at the time, sitting his final exams in Law School, was unable to cross the borders to be with us. The borders were open only in one direction, people were allowed, helped and encouraged through loud-speakers to leave Palestine for their own safety.
Searching for a place of safety for her five children, my young mother, alone, frightened and unable to feed or protect her children decided to join my father and to take us to a place of safety until war was over.
It has been forty six years since then, we are still waiting to go back home.
The checkpoint of Beit Iksa, looks more like a concentration camp entrance
Beit Iksa used to have one road, which also used to connect the village to Jerusalem… It has been permanently closed for at least four years now.
My village was ethnically cleansed and partially destroyed in 1948
Grandfather’s bakery
My great grandmother’s house
My head was stuck between those rails when I was 2 years old
I tried again but I couldn’t fit my head in this time
The home of my childhood
My paternal grandmother’s house
My maternal grandmother’s house
A tour in the village
Seventy years ago, my village which was once peaceful and totally self-sufficient, thriving on sustainable organic agriculture is reduced now to a concentration camp, deprived of basic survival rights. dependent on food aid from UNRWA
The view overlooking the hills, where Deir Yassin once stood
The colony of Ramot Alon, built on the STOLEN land
of my late husband’s family, causing so much
destruction to nature and the landscape
The view of Lifta and Jerusalem from Beit Iksa
In Palestine, I am a torn between the most
paradoxical emotions of
uncontainable joy and excruciating sadness
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Divine Love
Posted on October 27, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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Divine Love embraces all
Flakes of heaven
Falls like rain
Sublime and tender
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Kind hearts abide with wonder
Share with all without constraint
Every drop blooms to oceans
Smiles aghast, grateful souls
Gift their love, received with passion
Cherishing life in utmost joy
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.Divine Love embraces all
Flakes of heaven
Falls like rain
From rugged hearts it slips unnoticed
Drizzled or drenched not a crack would open
Not a seed would bud
Not a weed would grow
Its only lust, destroy destroy
Beating drums of own demise
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Beauty
Posted on October 26, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Sometimes, beauty is mistakenly understood;
Assuming that
If someone is beautiful, they are always good,
When truth is
When someone is good, they are always beautiful
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Heart songs
Posted on October 23, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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Each one of us is born
With heart songs inside
When the ride gets rough,
People become tough
Life rages with noise
Our heart songs faint
To the background
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But each one of us is born
With many heart songs inside
A kind word, or a poem,
Caress of a tender hand,
Attentive ear,
A meal made with love,
Or a prayer said in silence
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A gaze pure and gentle,
Heartwarming embrace,
A small act of forgiveness,
A glorious twinkle in the eye,
Or a radiant smile
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When autumn falls
Don’t hibernate
Get out and about
Plough the meadows of your soul
Seeds of good deeds
Plant all around
Let love bloom
Let hope thrive
Open your heart
Dance to its singing
Paint the corners of your soul
Pink and lilac, blue and green
Then sway and shine
Sprinkle your joy
Extend your hands
Embrace the world
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Is it me standing on my head, or is the world upside-down?
Posted on October 17, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
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Silent cries of babies dying pierce my ears
Deformed infants born, a nightmare called “life”
Corpses of bleeding whales paint the ocean pink
Lifeless grey trees, trunks chopped and dry
Bees falling dead “we don’t know why”!
Breathless sweet dolphins scattered by the seashore
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Heavy nights descend like bricks
Hidden hands tighten around my neck
I’m breathing mud, I’m breathing sand
Is it just me standing on my head?
Or is everything around me, upside-down?
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Destruction… “conquest” of nature
Radioactive waste… praised as accomplishment
Robbery in broad day light… a “Historic Achievement”
Progress… a family is no longer mum and dad
Liberty… measured in nudity per cm², put on display
Civilisation… how many weapons a nation could amass
Science… a tool of annihilation and a mushroom cloud
Charity… bailout of bankers adding to the trillions in their “empty” coffers
If we don’t give them that, our world would collapse… yes, collapse!
Economy… snatching the last piece of bread from a hungry destitute
Financial growth… interest goes up and up, while life goes down
Security… watching every move, recording every word, just to keep us “safe”
Technology… counting every breath, monitoring every dream only just in case
Defence… watch out, every blink of an eye might be a “secret code”,
Every social gathering could be a “sleeping cell”, call 999 only just in case
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O dear Beloved God
How could such a small heart
Take all this pain
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I don’t want to be here
I don’t want to take part
In this evil madness
All I want to be
Is a leaf on a tree
or a wild flower by the road side
Hide forever
Where no one could see
Look up into Heaven
Smile at angels as they pass by
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No alternative to FULL LIBERATION
Posted on October 17, 2013 by Nahida Exiled Palestinian
Promoting “one state” after the failure of the “two states” means in plain language:
1) Legitimizing the usurping entity of “israel”, worse, it is a call for promoting the enlargement of its boundaries, to encompass the ENTIRE land of Palestine, by annexing what remains of Palestine.
2) Wiping out the Palestinian Identity by giving Palestinians “israeli” citizenship, thus covertly calling for the “israelization” of what remains of Palestinians.
3) Inviting the Zionist entity to ANNEX and OCCUPY what is left of Palestine.
4) Blessing the invaders with the “right” to keep the LOOT of whatever they have captured through wars of conquest and aggression.
5) Enabling the invaders to ENLARGE and EXPAND their entity, a small step towards a “greater israel”.
6) Embracing the finalization of the Zionist project.
7) Campaigning to upgrade the Palestinians’ status from “occupied Palestinian” to “slave israelis”, living under the boot of Jewish supremacists who see Palestinians and other goyim as animals created only to serve Jews.
Are we so naive to engage promoting such insanity?
No alternative to the Algerian model of FULL LIBERATION
Map of “greater Israel” engraved on 10 agorot coin
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Poetry for Palestine 