05.16.08
EI update
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Palestine : Opinion/Editorial:
RESISTING THE NAKBA
By Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada, 16 May 2008
One of the most difficult things to grasp in the modern
history of Palestine and the Palestinians is the meaning
of the Nakba. Is the Nakba to be seen as a discrete event
that took place and ended in 1948, or is it something
else? What are the political stakes in reifying the Nakba
as a past event, in commemorating it annually, in bowing
before its awesome symbolism? What are the effects of
making the Nakba a finite historical episode that one
bemoans but must ultimately accept as a fact of history?
Joseph Massad comments.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9549.shtml
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Palestine : Diaries: Live from Palestine:
THE NAKBA MARCH
By Jonathan Cook, Live from Palestine, 16 May 2008
Israel’s Palestinian minority staged an alternative act of
commemoration: a procession to one of more than 400
Palestinian villages erased by Israel in a monumental act
of state vandalism after the fighting. In a sign of how
far Israel still is from coming to terms with the
circumstances of its birth, EI contributor Jonathan Cook
reports that this year’s march was forcibly broken up by
the Israeli police who clubbed unarmed demonstrators with
batons and fired tear gas and stun grenades into crowds of
families that included young children.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9547.shtml
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Palestine : Art, Music & Culture:
Film review: “Shadow of Absence”
By Isabelle Humphries, The Electronic Intifada, 16 May 2008
“Born in Palestine. Died in Lebanon.” “Born in Palestine.
Died in Syria.” “Born in Palestine. Died in Jordan.” The
camera pans across an endless row of white tombstones.
Shadow of Absence takes death as its subject yet in doing
so presents a powerful statement about Palestinian life.
Isabelle Humphries reviews director Nasri Hajjaj’s new
documentary, which screens tonight at the Houston
Palestine Film Festival, for EI.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9548.shtml
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Palestine : Human Rights:
REMEMBERING THE NAKBA, 60 YEARS LATER
Report, PCHR, 15 May 2008
“I am not sure what year I was born. But it was around 78
years ago, in Palestine.” Handuma Rashid Najja Wishah sits
on the patio overlooking her large garden, recalling the
turbulent story of her long life. “I am a Palestinian from
the village of Beit Affa” she says, tucking her long white
scarf under her chin. “It was a beautiful village and we
had a good life there. There was a small Jewish settlement
nearby, called Negba, and we had a good relationship with
the Jews.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9546.shtml
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