Falastin quote
By Mary Rizzo • Jul 28th, 2008 at 0:11 • Category: Falastin, QuotesOne issue that stands out here is the importance of collective mobilization around a strategic vision, and the conditions that promote or challenge popular consent. For both peoples, the hope of return has not vanished despite decades of displacement and it is clear that such a return is imagined as a collective one based on national rights. However, for Palestinians the past informs the imagined future, wherein the expropriated land and property lost in 1948 are yet to be reclaimed and returned. For Sahrawi refugees, sovereignty in the form of a state is central in their discourse of return. What is certain is that despite decades of overwhelming power and repression imposed on these two stateless populations, their forms of struggle have changed, but not silenced.
Randa Farah in Al Majdal
Mary Rizzo is an art restorer, translator and writer living in Italy. Editor and co-founder of Palestine Think Tank, co-founder of Tlaxcala translations collective. Her personal blog is Peacepalestine.
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