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Reham Alhelsi - And then they came and turned our paradise into a desert

By Reham Alhelsi • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Photo by Shirien. Please scroll down for shocking photo of the transformation of Palestinian land by the Jewish “settlers” in the West Bank.
I love taking photos, it is a hobby of mine and my camera is my constant companion wherever I go. I love taking photos of the green meadows, the blue sea, the clear [...]


Reham Alhelsi - Saying “I didn’t know” is no excuse anymore

By Reham Alhelsi • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

A couple of days ago I read an article by Haitham Sabbah entitled Murder at Huwara Checkpoint. It talks about the killing of a 15 year old Palestinian boy by the Israeli soldiers at the Huwara Checkpoint. What drew my attention to the article was the accompanying photo. It was a painting of a Palestinian [...]


Reham Alhelsi - East Sawahreh and the Apartheid Wall

By Reham Alhelsi • Jun 2nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Maps, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Last week I got my new “Palestinian Passport”. Palestinians need to renew their passports every three years, and it was time for me to renew mine. Living in Germany the next step for me would be to get my “residency permit” transferred from my old to my new passport. As I prepared the documents I [...]


Reham Alhelsi - The Unforgotten City and its Forgotten Suffering

By Reham Alhelsi • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Jerusalem, the holy city, a city once the religious, social and economic center of the Palestinians for thousands of years, has turned into a ghost city under Israeli occupation. Moslems, Christians and Jews lived peacefully here until the Zionists started implementing their plans of establishing a Zionist state in Palestine. A city that was open [...]


Reham Alhelsi - What about the children of Palestine?

By Reham Alhelsi • May 16th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Features, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

While the children of Palestine face the atrocities of the Israeli military occupation, the children of Israel celebrate the on-going ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
Two days ago I was visiting a friend of mine and as we walked down the old city, we more than once came across Hebrew-speaking tourists, a language I would [...]


Reham Alhelsi - Our Cultural Heritage

By Reham Alhelsi • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Human Rights, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

As Palestinians all over the world commemorate the Nakba and 60 years of on-going zionist ethnic cleansing, murder and apartheid, there is one aspect of our Palestinian identity that survived despite all zionist attempts of elimination: our cultural heritage. The Palestinian cultural heritage is full of popular songs, poetry, sayings, stories handicrafts and other forms [...]