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Reham Alhelsi -61 Years of On-Going Nakba: the Old Still Live through Us and the Young Never Forgot

By Reham Alhelsi • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

On 18/07/1948 David Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary: We must do everything to ensure they (the Palestinian refugees) never do return…. The old will die and the young will forget.” (1)
Today, 61 years after the Nakba of 1948 and despite the on-going Zionist terror and ethnic cleansing, we are still here and we have not [...]

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 [...]