noir, with your incessant Muslim bashing you sure do display yourself as a hasbara troll. Keep going.
Ter wrote:I am aware of Mr Finkelstein's arguments.
Actually you're not because you wouldn't demand dumb shit like Palestinians have to "recognize" the colonial state that military occupies, blockades and continues to expand into Palestinian territory. I mean, Palestinians recognize it for its settler-colonialism but I guess that's not limited to Palestinians.
Why doesn't Israel recognize a state of Palestine? Israel is already there, and it's constantly expanding (which is why it has no legal borders) and is constantly eating up Palestinians and their homes as well as land in other countries (Syria). Palestinians don't have to recognize shit, legally or morally, and you'd know that if you knew what international law dictates, which Israeli violates every day with its constant and consistent expansion, every day war crimes and with it's lonely attempt
to claim sovereignty over the entirety of Jerusalem, which to date no international legal body has recognized. My guess is Israel's own supreme court hasn't recognized this move, as it tends to oppose the settlements, with words as usual only.
Anyway...
Laith Marouf wrote: Canaanite Arabs, including in Palestine, have inhabited our land continuously and with no interruption for over 40k years, the age of our cities like, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Jericho is over 11k years. In our time of existence, our land faced many projects of foreign occupation and colonization, but none ever succeeded.
The Hebrew tribes invasion from Egypt, if it actually even happened, lasted for less than 250 years and only in small locations in Palestine. The Greek occupation lasted 215 years. The Roman occupation lasted 565 years, the longest foreign occupation in our history. The Crusader occupation lasted only 88 years, except in the coast were it lasted for another 100 in a few cities. The Ottoman occupation lasted 400 years exactly. British occupation lasted 30 years.
The current Zionist occupation has lasted 70 years, do you think it will last longer than the Crusader occupation of Jerusalem at 88?
All foreign occupation periods in our people's history amount to 1700 years; that is less than 4% of the 40k years Canaanite Arabs have continuously lived in our region and successfully resisted invasion. Do you think that the Anglo-Zionist Crusade can exterminate us from our land? Can they do better than the Romans and last over 500 years?
We live in the age of computers, the age of exponential trajectories, when social experiments and change are happening at rapid speeds; can the Zionist Supremacist ideology modelled for 1700s sensibilities exist for longer in this age?
Rejoice! Palestine will be free very soon! Our people and our cities have been given promises by the coming storm: that it will rid the standing tree trunks of all the fake branches; as Mahmoud Darwish said in his poem.
Amer Zahr wrote:It doesn't matter where anyone builds their diplomatic palaces. Jerusalem still speaks Arabic. I've heard her.
Hundreds of restaurants offer falafel, hummus, shawarma, pomegranate juice, and knafeh. Believe me. I've tried them all. But there aren't any delis. No corned beef sandwiches on rye. No bagel shops. No lox. Don't get me wrong. All those things are delicious. They're just not there. Because Jerusalem eats rice and yogurt with every meal. She uses bread as a spoon. She checks her teeth for leftover tabbouli. She's an Arab.
Certain aromas waft through the air. Cumin. Coriander. Nutmeg. Cinnamon. Turmeric. Sumac. Allspice. Those spices don't come from Poland and Brooklyn. Her women push their herbs in her markets. Thyme. Sage. Basil. Mint. Lots of mint. Those herbs don't come from Russia and Miami Beach. I've hung out with her. She drinks coffee that's almost too strong for human consumption. She eats parsley-infused meats. She sweats garlic like the rest of us. She's an Arab.
It's easy to get confused in her alleyways. They meander every which way, twisting and turning, each corner bringing a new little journey. But if you ask for directions from one part of the Old city to another, her children will just tell you, "Just go straight." Jerusalem is still an Arab. I promise you.
Look in her closets. She collects ornately embroidered gowns.
Visit her weddings. She "changes the light bulb" when she dances.
Go out to dinner with her. She fights over the bill.
Talk to her for more than five minutes. She asks you if you're married. And if you're not... Well, then prepare yourself for a much longer, and quite uncomfortable, conversation.
She wears a keffiyeh. Sometimes it's because she's protesting. And sometimes it's just to keep warm.
When she has some time for herself to listen to some music, she sings along with Fairouz, Abdel Halim, and Um Kalthum.
Jerusalem's been Arab for 1400 years. Crusader campaigns tried to change her. It didn't work. Israeli colonization, settlement, and profanity have tried to change her. They've failed terribly. Some stuttering speech about an embassy won't succeed either.
She's been through decades of foreign occupation, more than once. She has suffered the attempted theft of her heritage. She has watched the dispossession, expulsion, and looting of her children's lives, homes, and histories. She has even endured the propaganda that she still solely belongs to someone who doesn't remotely understand the beautiful creature she grown into today. Yet, despite these attempts to defeat her, Jerusalem still speaks Arabic. With a Palestinian accent.
She's one of us. Don’t worry. She can handle this.
Free Palestine.