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Israel history since 1878 the truth about…

This video will answer the following questions:

– How were the Jews treated by Arab before 1948?

– Where and how did Zionism start?

– Was Palestine empty when the Jews came?

– What was the population of Arabs in Palestine between 1878 and 1948?

– How many Jewish immigrants arrived to Palestine between 1878-1948 and how did the UN partition plan divided Palestine between Arab and Jews? Did Israel stick to this plan?

– Did the Jews find “land without people” as they claim?

– How did the Jews treat the Palestinians in the occupied lands?

– How did the Nakba start and at what cost?

– Where the Palestinians expelled before or after the neighboring Arabs countries engaged in a war with the Israeli occupiers?

– What happened to the evicted Palestinian villages? How many were erased?

– Can the Palestinian refugees return to “visit” their occupied villages and lands? And can the Jews visit the occupied lands?

All these questions and more are answered in the above 10 min. documentary. A good video to pass to your friends who like to learn more about the history of the conflict and 1948 Nakba.

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April 11, 2010 0

DAM, “Born Here”, Hebrew/Arabic with English subtitles

Palestinian rap group DAM (Da Arab MC’s, or “forever” in Arabic) created this music video about the life of Palestinians in Israel. They’re from Lod, a town between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, so they’re Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (often called “Israeli Arabs”). They usually rap in Arabic, but they made a Hebrew version of this song with a music video to get their message out to the majority of Israelis who don’t speak Arabic.

You find out more about them at http://www.dampalestine.com/main.html .

I’ve always wanted a subtitled version, so I broke down and adapted the lyrics from their website, to create this. I think this is one of the most powerful rap songs out there.

See http://moomtastic.com/born-here.html to see my extended comments on the video and its chorus.

By the way, a lot of people are confused about what DAM stands for, but it really is “forever” or “eternity”. See the interview at http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/15…, where you’ll find this:

TAMER NAFAR: Ill just correct you. Actually, dam is eternity in Arabic and blood in Hebrew. So its eternal blood, like we will stay here forever.

December 15, 2009 1

Israel’s right or not to exist – The facts and truth

By Alan Hart*

On Monday 12 October, Prime Minister Netanyahu opened the Knesset’s winter session by blasting the Goldstone Report that accuses Israel of committing war crimes and vowing that he would never allow Israelis be tried for them. But that was not his main message. It was an appeal, delivered I thought with a measure of desperation, to the “Palestinian leadership”, presumably the leadership of “President” Abbas and his Fatah cronies, leaders who are regarded by very many if not most Palestinians as American-and-Israeli stooges at best and traitors at worst.

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October 15, 2009 0