Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2

[Hollie]

Shades of The Peaceful Inner Struggle

 

[Sixties Fan]

[When did this Palestinian ever experience life in Gaza or "West Bank". What treatment do Palestinians get from the Lebanese government? ]

Rafeef Ziadah (born 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Palestinian-Canadian poet and human rights activist who currently lives in London. She released the spoken word album, Hadeel.

Ziadah was born in Beirut, Lebanon to Palestinian refugee parents[1] and began writing at a young age.[2] She grew up in Tunisia.[1] She attended York University in Toronto.[2] In 2004, she gave her first public performance after she was motivated by her experience of racism to write a poem.[2]

Rafeef Ziadah - Wikipedia

[What fascinates me more is this video:]



[Was the bombing she experienced caused by Hezbollah attacking Israel and its response to it?
Does she think that it was against the Palestinians (who need to practice their "Ps" to pronounce the word with a foreign consonant to them?
When are these Palestinians going to manage to reverse the brainwashing of "this is occupied land, this is Palestinian land, and the Jews and Israel must go "home"? ]

 

[Sixties Fan]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

 

[Shusha]

In the process of “Judaizing” Palestine, numerous convents, hospices, seminaries, and churches were either destroyed or cleared of their Christian owners and custodians. In one of the most spectacular attacks on a Christian target, on May 17, 1948, the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate was shelled with about 100 mortar rounds—launched by Zionist forces from the already occupied monastery of the Benedictine Fathers on Mount Zion. The bombardment also damaged St. Jacob’s Convent, the Archangel’s Convent, and their appended churches, their two elementary and seminary schools, as well as their libraries, killing eight people and wounding 120.

Forgotten Christians

This narration of events is disingenuous. "...spectacular attacks on a Christian target...launched by Zionist force"? Pahleeeze. A truthful presentation of the events would NOT portray the targets as intentionally "Christian" and apparently empty buildings, or buildings full of innocents being attacked by the awful Zionists. Where are the Arabs in this representation of events? A glaring and deliberate omission. Its like they weren't even there.

But they were, of course. The Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem was the focus of heavy fighting between Arab forces -- including irregulars -- and the Israeli army defending their newly-declared State in the face of armed hostility. An eye-witness, hiding in a church compound writes:

We kept the Compound gate locked with the object of trying to keep the Compound free of armed men of either party, as we knew that once armed men took up their positions in the Compound they would draw fire on us from the opposite side.

Which is exactly what happened, of course.

At midnight the Jews launched their most determined attack on the Jaffa Gate. The attack lasted for about three hours, but they were unable to make any headway against withering fire which hundreds of Arab irregulars kept up without a break from the Citadel and Jaffa Gate. The acrid smoke from all this intensive firing was wafted across into the Compound and into my house where the smell was so thick that it was quite unpleasant to have to breathe.

War diary: An eyewitness account



The article posted by you also makes another glaring omission of fact. It claims there are only 175,000 remaining Christians in the territory. The article is a little old. What it FAILS to mention is that 155,000 of those lived in Israel and only a small percentage remained in West Bank (50,000) and Gaza (3,000). The numbers in West Bank and Gaza have been further reduced in the past thirteen years since the article was written. While the numbers in Israel has increased.

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Sixties Fan]

On September 11, 1970 -- a date that only took on haunting overtones with the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 -- Nixon became the first U.S. president to try to protect air travelers from extremists who sensed gaping vulnerabilities in security for commercial airliners, issuing a statement listing a string of measures including the introduction of 100 air marshals on U.S. planes.
---
"Terrorism has a long history, going back centuries, but we began to see at the very tail end of the 1960s, (and) clearly evident in the 1970s, the emergence of contemporary international terrorism," said Brian Michael Jenkins, a RAND Corporation analyst.

Timothy Naftali, the former head of the Nixon Presidential Library, said that the 37th president was the first to approach terrorism as a federal government issue.

"The '70s are a pivot in how the U.S. deals with terrorism," Naftali said.


(full article online)

Nixon's 9/11: When terrorism came of age - CNNPolitics

 

[P F Tinmore]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

 

[rylah]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

So Palestinian Arabs didn't plan for Jews to fight back?

 

[P F Tinmore]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet
​

 

[Hollie]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

 

[P F Tinmore]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

IAF? Is that Israeli Asshole Force?

 

[Sixties Fan]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet​

[Let us study her poem ]

Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.
------------------

I must say that those words are incitement to kill Jews.
To take Israel by force.
Same words about any other country would lead to the same result. Jail.
Isn't the PA arresting all of those writing or expressing their demise for a "better" government which will fight and destroy Israel ?

She is most definitely NOT an Arab Voice For Peace.

The "meaning" of this poetry is "Kill the Jews and destroy Israel".
Nothing more and nothing less.

Let us see how long before PEN gets back to its senses.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

IAF? Is that Israeli Asshole Force?

You do not want them to knock on the people's roof to save their lives just send a letter to the IAF and demand that they stop that policy!!!

 

[Hollie]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

IAF? Is that Israeli Asshole Force?

You poor dear. The IAF acts with restraint and that denies you the dead bodies you could otherwise parade around.

 

[Shusha]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet​

Am I to understand you believe that publicly calling for ethnic cleansing and the murder of people of a specific ethnic origin is morally permissible?

 

[P F Tinmore]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet​

[Let us study her poem ]

Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.
------------------

I must say that those words are incitement to kill Jews.
To take Israel by force.
Same words about any other country would lead to the same result. Jail.
Isn't the PA arresting all of those writing or expressing their demise for a "better" government which will fight and destroy Israel ?

She is most definitely NOT an Arab Voice For Peace.

The "meaning" of this poetry is "Kill the Jews and destroy Israel".
Nothing more and nothing less.

Let us see how long before PEN gets back to its senses.

Israel - be afraid, very afraid!

 

[P F Tinmore]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

IAF? Is that Israeli Asshole Force?

You do not want them to knock on the people's roof to save their lives just send a letter to the IAF and demand that they stop that policy!!!

Where would those assholes be if they did not mooch all those planes from the US?

 

[Hollie]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet​

[Let us study her poem ]

Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.
------------------

I must say that those words are incitement to kill Jews.
To take Israel by force.
Same words about any other country would lead to the same result. Jail.
Isn't the PA arresting all of those writing or expressing their demise for a "better" government which will fight and destroy Israel ?

She is most definitely NOT an Arab Voice For Peace.

The "meaning" of this poetry is "Kill the Jews and destroy Israel".
Nothing more and nothing less.

Let us see how long before PEN gets back to its senses.

Israel - be afraid, very afraid!

Outside of islamic terrorist enclaves there are laws that address incitement to violence.

 

[Hollie]

The things one learns tend to shape one's future. And it is a pity that her grandparents or parents did not stay in Haifa, as they were asked to by the Jews, as so many did and where they still live.
So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

It is never too late to learn, but how does one teach a young person like this one who only has what her fellow Arab people tell her to be the truth and never exercises her power to learn what the historical facts of the time were, and why UNWRA still exists, and why only the Palestinian Arabs are made to remain refugees out of all of the refugees in the world.

Time for UNWRA to be dismantled. Time for Arabs like these to chose where they want to live and love the place where they want to live and help the country they are in.

Time for all Palestinians to take responsibility for the actions of their leaders and take action to change the plans their leaders continue to have for them. Endless refugee status, which does not really exist anymore as most of those who were really made to leave by their leaders are around no more.

How long must those who are ignorant of their leaders plans, like this young woman, continue to pay for the dreams of Israel's destruction the leaders endlessly propagate, on a daily basis?

Descendants of Iraqi Jewish refugees do not call themselves Iraqi. They call themselves the nationality of the country they were born in.

Time for the Arabs, to do the same.

An interview with Palestinian poet, Rafeef Ziadah | Women's Views on News

So many excuses to attack Israel, when the whole Arab refugee problem was made by all the Arab leaders who incited all Arabs to leave in order to have a clear path to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.

Speaking of knocking.....

IAF? Is that Israeli Asshole Force?

You do not want them to knock on the people's roof to save their lives just send a letter to the IAF and demand that they stop that policy!!!

Where would those assholes be if they did not mooch all those planes from the US?

They might be as they were in 1948 when they had no Great Satan aircraft.

You look so cute in your pointy dunce hat.

 

[rylah]

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet

Tatour’s case has been the focus of a global campaign of support, including from PEN International. And the good news is that PEN America has full-throatedly joined that campaign: the poet is PEN America’s “October featured case.”

PEN gives an excellent description of the crudeness of the Israeli case:

The prosecution of Tatour is of particular concern, as it not only threatens principles of free expression for Palestinian authors, but also represents more broadly an attempt by the Israeli government to litigate the meaning of a piece of literature. The government has based their case primarily on Tatour’s use of the word shahid, both within her poem and in an October 9, 2015, Facebook post of a photograph of Isra’a Abed, an Arab-Israeli woman shot by security officers.

PEN America slams Israel for effort to criminalize Dareen Tatour’s poetry and denying her access to internet​

[Let us study her poem ]

Resist, My People, Resist Them
Resist, my people, resist them.

In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows

And carried the soul in my palm

For an Arab Palestine.

I will not succumb to the “peaceful solution,”

Never lower my flags

Until I evict them from my land.

I cast them aside for a coming time.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the settler’s robbery

And follow the caravan of martyrs.

Shred the disgraceful constitution

Which imposed degradation and humiliation

And deterred us from restoring justice.

They burned blameless children;

As for Hadil, they sniped her in public,

Killed her in broad daylight.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist the colonialist’s onslaught.

Pay no mind to his agents among us

Who chain us with the peaceful illusion.

Do not fear doubtful tongues;

The truth in your heart is stronger,

As long as you resist in a land

That has lived through raids and victory.

So Ali called from his grave:

Resist, my rebellious people.

Write me as prose on the agarwood;

My remains have you as a response.

Resist, my people, resist them.

Resist, my people, resist them.
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I must say that those words are incitement to kill Jews.
To take Israel by force.
Same words about any other country would lead to the same result. Jail.
Isn't the PA arresting all of those writing or expressing their demise for a "better" government which will fight and destroy Israel ?

She is most definitely NOT an Arab Voice For Peace.

The "meaning" of this poetry is "Kill the Jews and destroy Israel".
Nothing more and nothing less.

Let us see how long before PEN gets back to its senses.

Israel - be afraid, very afraid!

We already discussed her case.

Incitement to violence is still a criminal offense, no matter how wide she smiles.