61 years of Nakba, 418 Palestinian villages destroyed
By Reham Alhelsi • May 15th, 2009 at 20:46 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism
These two videos show the images of what Palestine was before the onset of Zionism. It shows the culture of the indigenous people of Palestine, their daily lives, their homes, families, work, play, social activities and education. It shows a peaceful society in harmony with its land. Then we see the effects of Jewish mass immigration to Palestine and how they devastated the land and committed outrage after outrage against its people.
Palestinians remember and they are not defeated. They will not renounce their rights and their land. The land, the culture is their life, and no one has the right to deny it to them. One day, Palestinian wounds will heal, but until then, let no one forget. Let everyone bear witness to what the Israeli Jews and their supporters did to the Palestinian people.
Reham Alhelsi is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian. She has worked extensively in the Palestinian Broadcasting Company and since 2000, when she moved to Germany, has trained at various radio and TV networks including Deutsche Welle, SWR and WDR. She is currently writing her PhD in Regional Planning with a focus on Palestinian Land Management and local government.
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These films serve to show the scale of what has been done to a people that has suffered too much…and still suffers. The eyes of the world are slowly turning to the sufferings of the Palestinian people. Gaza was the greatest PR disaster for Israel and the greatest victory for the people of Palestine. It has focused the eyes upon the dark deeds done mostly in secret. From now on the truth is out there and the world will not accept what is going on without protest.
Palestine you have many new friends, many new supporters in many lands you had never dreamt of. You no longer stand alone in this world. The wrongs done to you are getting known and the balance will be redressed.
God be with you and give you strength.
http://siratyst.blogspot.com/2009/05/remebering-nakba-in-seattle-1948-2009.html
Good day talking to the public in Seattle and displaying tents representing the villages destroyed in Nakba. See above link for photos.
In my 25 years in Israel, I haven't seen a clue as to the richness that was Palestine. It's all gone.
I want to repost this video on my blog (with full credits of course), but the embed button is covered by the sidebar. How about a piece of code?
If you click on that little icon next to the book pages, it has an option of embedding, and gives you the code to embed. I tried to copy the code here, but it embedded the vids directly! If you have other problems, click on PTT TV right above and you will be able to extract the code from there as well.
Yes, it's true, it would run counter to the interests of Israel to show its people the way life was before, it would debunk many things Israelis are taught to accept as truth.
The video was made by Reham Alhelsi. You must read her articles which are on this blog. She is in my view one of the most gifted narrators in the world.
@Mary Rizzo – got it, thanks
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An excellent film to serve as documented evidence for Knesset members who voted against Nakba to make it illegal and punishable if anyone mentioned that horrible heartless mass murder of ethnic-cleansing and land-grabbing carried out by the Zionists or Jews who established Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people.
Free Free Palestine!