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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Well I've been saying this for a while now. I was seeing rapid decline and businesses dying all around me in Nov 2023. I'm talking real day to day...
Here's what most don't get: the only Court you need to have declare a BAD LAW to be null is the one you're in, on a Jury. Your first duty as a...
am surprised the clampdown took so long - legitimate, truly sympathetic protest would concentrate purely on Peace, it would see that both sides...
Tough titty Orli Degani. If you want to be a jewish politician then go back to isreal and be one. Your fellow jewish people in the stolen lands...
Hopefully, the courts will declare unconstitutional this latest assault in the First Amendment.
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A short documentary...well it's almost an hour, for anyone interested.
[Link] It's subtitled
Lost cities of Palestine, Haifa, Nazareth and Jaffa, now they are considered cities in Israel.
Rarely seen archival footage accompanies memories and accounts of forgotten Palestinian cities - highlighting the catastrophic effect the creation of Israel in 1948 had on them.
Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa have all been overshadowed by Tel Aviv, but in their day each of the Palestinian cities had magnificent commercial and cultural ability.
"Palestinians born after 1948 don't realise what they have missed," says writer Raef Zreik.
"We only realise what we've lost when we hear people's stories about Palestine before 1948. People who spent the night at to clubs and movies in Haifa, who spent the night there and the next day took taxis from Al-Hanateer Square to go back home at the American University in Beirut. You could do what you liked. We not only lost our cities in 1948, but also our open relationship with the Arab world."
Made for Al Jazeera Arabic in 2011, Lost Cities of Palestine provides a rare opportunity to see Palestine as it was in the 30s and 40s and learn about the everyday life and culture of urban Palestine before 1948.
Strange, we talk about lost civilizations and countries in the ancient past, but we have born witness to the lost country, Palestine in our life time, and the world has remained silent.