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Posts Tagged ‘Right of Return’

Kawther Salam - Fatwa: Right of Return is an Obligation

By Kawther Salam • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine

Written by Kawther Salam
Sheikh Dr. Taysir Al-Tamimi issued a Fatwa (a religious edict) at the Mosque of Riverside, California, during his visit there and while participating in the activities commemorating Al-Naqbah by the Palestinian community at that location. Sheikh Al-Tamimi stated in his Fatwa that the Palestinian Right of Return is the base of the [...]


Salim Nazzal - When we returned back to Palestine

By Mary Rizzo • May 15th, 2008 • Category: Children's Corner, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, Zionism

Written by: Salim Nazzal
While as a nation moving towards commemorating the Nakba day each Palestinian has a story about that day. Among the Palestinians in Lebanon in the sixties the tradition was to raise black flags to commemorate the 15th of May and people stay at home to tell new generations what happened to them [...]


World’s Largest Key in Bethlehem

By Mary Rizzo • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Grassroots Activism, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Palestine, Resistance

Bethlehem / Munjed Jadou - The Aida Youth Activity Center is located in northern Bethlehem’s Aida Refugee Camp.
Today it has launched a project to build a gigantic structure in the shape of key hole, in addition to the largest iron key which goes next to it. This is all in memorial of 60 years of [...]


Exiling Palestinians to Chile!!

By Adib Kawar • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine

We cannot but thank those who arranged for Palestinian Arab refugees who were chased out of Iraq for finding for them a path out of the hell they found themselves in, namely a desert no man’s land between Iraq and Syria. I am not sure for how long they spent of their lives suffering the [...]


60 Years After the Nakba, ROR is STILL the Issue

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Human Rights, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

from Uruknet
by: Richard Becker
The struggle in Palestine can be complex and confusing even for the closest of observers.Like all great struggles, it has had many twists and turns, and will have many more. But the root cause of the conflict— the forcible expulsion of a people from their homeland—is neither ambiguous nor confusing. Sixty years [...]