Palestinians

One last appeal before a Bedouin village in the Negev is demolished and a Jewish town is built in its place

Umm el-Hieran. (Photo: Adalah)

 The Bedouin village of Umm el-Hieran in Israel’s southern Negev desert is running out of time and appeals before it will be razed to the ground and an exclusively Jewish town will be built in its place.

 
 
by Allison Deger                                      Mondoweiss

A challenge to Hamas/Fatah

Isra Almodallal, the first woman to be nominated as spokeswoman for Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, is seen in her office in
Gaza City, on November 4, 2013. Almodallal, a 23-year-old journalist, told AFP last week her goal was “to change the image of Palestinians and that of the government in Gaza,”. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED -Courtesy Veterans today

Start communicating or forget dreams of freedom

 

The Palestinian Nakba; A Nucleus of Nationwide Arab Nakba

Image credit: Aljazeera

The Zionist project; Greater Israel in the Middle East, was established on “uprooting, expulsion and occupation” colonial ideology. This means forceful uprooting, expulsion and transfer of indigenous Palestinians into other Arab states, and importing Jews from all over the world to occupy the country.

 
 

The Nakba: Israel’s Catastrophe

Over 700,000 terrified Palestinians stripped of belongings, money, homes, orchards, livestock, land, fleeing massacres by the merciless Jewish militia were forcibly expelled and rendered, for 67 years, stateless refugees packed into 59 ghettos in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza: refugees who hold fast to the love of and the keys of their family homes rooted in the ancient genealogical soil of their Palestine.