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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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Monday, November 13, 2006
That simple sentence sums it all up...
As I was browsing Rafah Today, the best website where you can find updates on the situation on Gaza, live from the crime scene, and I came across this:
Mohammed wrote to me last night saying: 'We are getting killed'. [The Webmaster]
It's been a while since I wrote about the sufferring of the Palestinians in the occupied terretories, I don't know why, I'd rather not investigate the reasons, because I feel guilty, so guilty! I know little about what's going on in there, I never knew what happens there in details, and I urge you to visit that website and read some of the heart aching, outrageous stories posted there...
Hope this madness will come to an end very soon
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Thursday, October 26, 2006
I don’t know if I ever mentioned that I’m originally from a town in Jerusalem called Silwan. Silwan was previously a suburb ofJerusalem,but it was announced as a part of Jersalem in 1963. Silwan is the closest village to the Aqsa Mosque…
There’s a water spring in Silwan “Ain Silwan” that my father says it tastes just like ZamZam water “The blessed water spring in the Holy Shrine in Mecca”. My mother said that she once saw a documentary in which they said that Ain Silwan is an extension of Ain ZamZam, or they are related in some way…
Here is some information I found on the net…
بلدة سلوان قضاء القدس وهي اقرب قرية على المسجد الاقصى المبارك
يحاذي سلوان من الشمال المسجد الاقصى و سور البلدة القديمة من القدس الشريف ومن الغرب حي النبي داوود و حي الثوري , ومن الجنوب جبل المكبر و السواحرة , ومن الشرق قرى ابوديس و العيزرية و الطور. وتشتهر سلوان بعين شهيرة تجري مياهها في هدوء اسمها عين سلوان , استعملها الناس بالقديم لسقاية اراضيهم و الشرب منها وقد حولت السلطات الاسرائيلية بعض من مجرى العين للاستفادة منها , ومياهها تشبه ماء زمزم بالطعم , وقال ابو علاء المعري
و بعين سلوان التي في قدسها طعم يوهم انه من زمزم
و فيها عيون ماء منها :عين ام الدرج و بركة سلوان و عين اللوزة و بئر ايوب
وفيها عدد من المساجد: مسجد عين سلوان , مسجد عين اللوزة , مسجد بئر ايوب , مسجد بلال بن
رباح
وتشهر سلوان ببستانها الاخضر المليء باشجار التين لكن للاسف في الوقت الحاضر لم يتبقى منه الا
القليل لان الناس عددهم زاد وبدا كل واحد يحول ارضه الى مكان يسكنه
وفيها عدد من الاديرة: دير اليونان الارثوذكس , ودير بطرس صباح الديك , و دير ابونا ابراهيم
You know what? Writing this gave me such a great joy! It’s always nice to pride yourself on your hometown…
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Amazing what you can see in the eyes of a child, not to mention a Palestinian child...
I just found this site in my favorites, amazing pictures there...
Pictures courtsy of Anna in the Middle East
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
I found this while doing some search, it's a part of an article wriiten by Ali Baghdadi in the Arab Journal, on April 18, 1997 (In memoriam of Qana's first massacre)
"...How can anyone find (this) acceptable for a people, who had themselves experienced many calamities because these refugees chose to remain close to their homes and villages?! How can anyone imagine that people, who had (allegedly) suffered centuries of oppression, are able to target innocent civilians taking shelter in a camp belonging to a UN peace-keeping unit, despite repeated UN personnel's appeals to stop the shelling?!
How can any man or woman comprehend how Jews, who build memorials to remind people of the "holocaust," have the power to drop "smart" bombs over towns and villages inhabited by real people?! How can any individual understand how Jews, who continue to complain (about) Nazi atrocities, have the strength and will to force the evacuation of 100 towns and villages and render the peaceful inhabitants homeless with no food, water, clothing or shelter?!"
And the question is still pending!
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