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| ] graffiti on the West Bank wall. He retells a story about his encounter with an old Palestinian man. The man said his painting made the wall look beautiful. When Banksy thanked the man he got a reply that was unexpected. He was told "We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall. Go home."<sup></sup>]] | ] graffiti on the West Bank wall. He retells a story about his encounter with an old Palestinian man. The man said his painting made the wall look beautiful. When Banksy thanked the man he got a reply that was unexpected. He was told "We don't want it to be beautiful, we hate this wall. Go home."<sup></sup>]] | ||
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In summer 2004, as acres of olive groves were being uprooted to make way for construction of a 24-foot high concrete wall extending well into Palestinian territory, and enclosing the rest of Palestine into numerous walled enclaves dotted with checkpoints that control mobility, protesters asked soldiers guarding the bulldozers why they were destroying cultivated Palestinian fields. The heavily armed soldiers pointed their rifles at the protesters and yelled, 'They are foreigners here. This all belongs to us'. In a poignant display of performative emotion, an elderly Palestinian woman from the village stood in front of one of the few remaining olive trees in a devastated field of uprooted trees littering the landscape and, holding an olive branch, angrily chanted, 'They can come from Poland, they can come from Russia, they can come from America, and they can come from Ethiopia, but this will always be ours! This is Palestinian land.' --Peteet, Julie (2005). "Words as Interventions: Naming in the Palestine–Israel Conflict". Third World Quarterly. 26 (1). Taylor & Francis: pp. 153-172. {{cite journal}}: |pages= has extra text (help) p. 162.Dealing with the Palestinians through the Shin Bet and the military courts had two advantages for Israelis. First, it was practically invisible—to Israelis and to the world. The Shin Bet operated like an unseen hand, arresting Palestinians at night, recruiting informers, tapping phones, beating the living daylights out of Palestinians behind the closed doors of interrogation rooms, and, it was widely rumored, even arranging for certain Palestinians to "accidentally" blow themselves up while supposedly assembling bombs meant for Israelis… Better yet, it was all "legal"—in Israeli terms… The Israeli security forces rarely did anything "illegal" in dealing with the Palestinians in the occupied territories. Every act of repression, no matter how arbitrary, was usually in line with some paragraph of the Israeli military code. When it wasn't, the code was changed to accommodate it. It was, as Meron Benvenisti used to say, "rule by law, not rule of law." --Friedman, Thomas L. (1995). From Beirut to Jerusalem (2 ed.). Anchor Books, Doubleday. p. 354. The treatment meted out to Jews in Germany and other European countries is a disgrace to its authors and to modern civilisation; but posterity will not exonerate any country that fails to bear its proper share of the sacrifices needed to alleviate Jewish suffering and distress. To place the brunt of the burden upon Arab Palestine is a miserable evasion of the duty that lies upon the whole of the civilised world. It is also morally outrageous. No code of morals could justify the persecution of one people in an attempt to relieve the persecution of another. The cure for the eviction of Jews from Germany is not to be sought in the eviction of the Arabs from their homeland; and the relief of the Jewish distress may not be accomplished at the cost of inflicting a corresponding distress upon an innocent and peaceful population. --Antonius, George (1939). The Arab awakening: the story of the Arab national movement. H. Hamilton. |
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Portion of a song by Umm Kalthoum and composed by Abdel Wahab, adapted from a poem by Nizar Qabbani:
أصبحَ عندي الآنَ بندقيه
إلى فلسطينَ خذوني معكم
إلى ربىً حزينةٍ كوجهِ مجدليّه
إلى القبابِ الخضرِ والحجارةِ النبيّه
عشرونَ عاماً وأنا
أبحثُ عن أرضٍ وعن هويّه
أبحثُ عن بيتي الذي هناك
عن وطني المحاطِ بالأسلاك
أبحثُ عن طفولتي
وعن رفاقِ حارتي
عن كتبي، عن صوري
عن كلِّ ركنٍ دافئٍ، وكلِّ مزهريّه
إلى فلسطينَ خذوني معكم، معكم
