As salamu alaikum

it's amazing how the American government, although it has so many problems with middle eastern countries, and the terrorist plots agaisnt them, which is mainly due to the support for Israel no matter what the Israelis do..yet Mr. Bush is still set on backing Israel blindly...blindly..not because they dont know what israel are doing, but blindly because they just follow whatever israel does and supports them for it...it makes me laugh when israelis use the same terrorist propaganda as America does! the siraeli army are terrorists with uniforms on...but thats ok..because they have uniform...

rafah

Amina

Now that you are taling about human rights....Ive heard what american soldiers did in the cold war...dont remember if it was in vietnam or not.
They took 50 muslim women and killed 49 in front of her...then they rubbed pigs organs into their bodies..and let the other free to tell everyone to be afraid.

The article said that by ding that those women wouldnt be in heaven. That is wrong, right? They were kiled and then others did that..they are not guilty of having pigs meat and blood in their body.

as salamu alaikum

ofocurse they go to heaven, someone else did that to them, which is sickening.
inshallah they would have died shaheedat.

Guardian article

Amina

thanks for telling me...I thought it was stupid...but as a newpaper said it I had my doubts

As salamu alaikum

After the catastrophe

Palestinians recall their expulsion, but prepare for a common future

Muhammad Jaradat
Saturday May 15, 2004
The Guardian

Today at noon, all over Palestine, there will be three minutes of absolute silence. In Rafah, Gaza, where bulldozers and armoured vehicles have been creating thousands of new refugees under the international community's gaze; in refugee camps and cities across the West Bank; in the Arab world and exile communities further afield; we will pause and remember. On the day Israel celebrates its declaration of independence, we mark the mass expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians in 1948, known to us as the Catastrophe - the Nakba.
But Palestinians aren't weepers, wallowing in despair and cursing their bad luck. We commemorate the tragedy of our dispossession, but nostalgia has been progressively transformed into the political action that can secure our future.

When the United Nations voted in 1947 to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state, it did so against the wishes of the indigenous Palestinian Arab people, who then made up more than two-thirds of the population. That led to the first Arab-Israeli war and the eviction of up to 800,000 Arabs from Palestine. Over 500 Palestinian villages were razed to the ground by the Israelis, who vowed the refugees could never return.

Palestine in 1948 had all the elements of civil society in place and an economic system that was a model in the region. This was all utterly destroyed in 1948. Palestinians were transformed into a fragmented, dependent collection of exile groups. Palestinians are now struggling to re-establish their unity and political and cultural identity within the occupied territories and in exile.

Today, the 56th anniversary of the Nakba, will see a greater unity than ever. Commemoration activities will take place all week in occupied Palestine, with special TV programmes and newspaper editions, debates, and dozens of marches planned in spite of the checkpoints and the closures. There will be ceremonies and demonstrations across the world, and the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, will address Palestinians and the Arab nation.

This national mobilisation is focused on democratic representation and participation - under occupation and in exile. If the people have not been included in a democratic process, there will be no solution to the refugee issue, which is the key to peace.

Crucially, young people in Palestine have not internalised the 1948 defeat. Of course, they are angry: about the apartheid wall that has destroyed communities and economic life; the arrests; the destruction in Gaza; the land confiscations; the assassinations; the relentless ethnic cleansing. Yet when they look to the future, they are full of hope. They understand that their future and that of Israelis belong together. They still base their thinking on common, universal values.

On this 56th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, we hope that the people who share this land with us will also try to look at the future on the basis of the greater values that unite us, rather than narrow ones that separate us. In future, Palestine-Israel should be a land for all of its people, regardless of ethnicity or religion. We must not be afraid to meet face to face in our own land.


· Muhammad Jaradat is the campaign coordinator of Badil, a Bethlehem-based refugee rights organisation

Amina

..the world is mad

&it makes me sick

dont think the forums allows that vocabulary

Fatwas given by Islamic on the boycott of Israel

salam
I do not think that they have these ones yet: