"Palestinian Cultural Day was officially proclaimed by the cities of San José, Sunnyvale, and Milpitas, and by Santa Clara County in a ceremony on May 15, 2009. The day celebrates Palestinian heritage and remembers the Palestinian Catastrophe in the hope that it will never be repeated."
Via Annie's site
Just a test to see if I'm still persona grata here. The last couple of comments I posted quickly disappeared.
ReplyDeleteJemmy
ReplyDeleteHow can you suggest that I'd erase your comments??!! For what?! I'm not aware of problems with Haloscan so I can't tell what has happened!! Please bear with us if things like that happen!
Jemmy
ReplyDeleteHow can you suggest that I'd erase your comments??!! For what?! I'm not aware of problems with Haloscan so I can't tell what has happened!! Please bear with us if things like that happen!
By the way, I really like your comments. I was wondering where have you been in the last 4,5 days!!
ReplyDeleteSome of my comments have disappeared too in the past couple of days. It's a technical problem Jemmy.
ReplyDelete"Palestinian" culture? LOL!
ReplyDeleteCan you name a 19th century "Palestinian" author, artist, or composer?
"Palestine" is a lie.
"The day celebrates Palestinian heritage and remembers the Palestinian Catastrophe in the hope that it will never be repeated."
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that this is still an ongoing catastrophe.
It's a self-inflicted catastrophe.
ReplyDeleteThe morons never learn: When you dig yourself into a hole, put the shovel down.
They get a bigger shovel.
Guest, please don't stop taking your meds.
ReplyDeleteI had no idea that Sunnyvale, SJ and Milpitas did this. Good for them. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the replies, TG and Moy. Hit or miss, I'll keep trying.
ReplyDeleteMy comments are disappearing, too.
ReplyDelete"Palestine" never was and never will be.
ReplyDelete"Palestine" never was and never will be.
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OK. I'm convinced now. :-D
:lol:
ReplyDeleteanand,
ReplyDeleteCan <span style="text-decoration: underline;">YOU</span> name a 19th century "Palestinian" author, artist, or composer?
How about 18th century?
17th century?
16th century?
Face it. There's no such thing; never was.
"Who Are the Palestinians?"
ReplyDeleteIf you are so sure that "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history", I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions about that country of "Palestine":
1. When was it founded and by whom?
2. What were its borders?
3. What was its capital?
4. What were its major cities?
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
6. What was its form of government?
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
9. What was the language of the country of Palestine?
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and try and find the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, British pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date.
12. Have the Palestinians left any artifacts behind?
13. Do you know of a library where one could find a work of Palestinian literature produced before 1967?
14. And, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
If you are lamenting the "low sinking" of "once proud" nation, then please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
And here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people you mistakenly call "Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over - or thrown out of - the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat by Israel in the 1967Six Day War?
I hope you avoid the temptation to trace the modern day "Palestinians" to the Biblical Philistines: substituting etymology for history won´t work here.
The truth should be obvious to everyone who wants to know it. Arab countries have never abandoned the dream of destroying Israel; they still cherish it today. Having time and again failed to achieve their evil goal through military means, they decided to fight Israel by proxy. For that purpose, they created a terrorist organization, cynically called it "the Palestinian people" and installed it in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. How else can you explain the refusal by Jordan and Egypt to unconditionally accept back the "West Bank" and Gaza, respectively, in the aftermath of the 1967 war?
The fact is, Arabs populating Gaza, Judea, and Samaria have much less of a claim to nationhood than the American Indian tribe that successfully emerged in Connecticut with the purpose of starting a tax-exempt casino: at least that tribe had a constructive goal that motivated them. The so-called "Palestinians" have only one motivation: the destruction of Israel. In my book that is not sufficient to consider them a "nation" -- or anything else -- except what they really are: a terrorist organization that will one day be dismantled.
In fact, there is only one way to achieve piece in the Middle East. Arab countries must acknowledge and accept their defeat in their war against Israel and, as the losing side, should pay Israel reparations for the more than 50 years of devastation they have visited upon it. The most appropriate form of such reparations would be the removal of their terrorist organization from the land of Israel and acceptance of Israel´s ancient sovereignty over Gaza, Judea, and Samaria.
That will mark the end of the Palestinian people. What are you saying again was its beginning?
Let's get to the grain of the matter instead of spewing tons of subterfuge:
ReplyDeleteIf the Arabs had indeed been as few as Mrs. Peters claims, one wonders why the letters, official reports, diaries, and essays of the early Zionist settlers—the "Lovers of Zion"—from the last two decades of the nineteenth century were filled with references to the Arabs surrounding them everywhere in Palestine. Those writings were collected many years ago and published by Asher Druyanov.[5] Republished several years ago they are now easily accessible, but apparently not for Mrs. Peters. Similarly, she has overlooked two of the most important articles by Jewish writers dealing with the Arab problem, which even around the turn of the century troubled the Jewish immigrants to Palestine. The first was written in 1891 by Ahad Ha'am, perhaps the greatest modern Jewish thinker, and was called "Truth from Palestine"; the second, called "Hidden Question," was written in 1907 by Y. Epstein and published in Ha-Shiloah. Both writers exhorted their fellow Jews in Palestine to take seriously the large Arab population and its feelings; the Ottoman Empire might go, they wrote, but the Arabs would remain. Anyone who believes Mrs. Peters's book would have to conclude that these distinguished writers, a philosopher and an educator with close experience of life in Palestine, had simply invented the existence of the many Arabs there.
Can someone please answer "Guest"? I am sure there were several, but I don't know their names.
ReplyDeleteRead this, too:
ReplyDelete...consider the number of non-Jews living in those areas. According to Mrs. Peters (again on page 251), ... they numbered about 92,300, of which nearly 38,000 were Christians (making the number of Muslims about 54,300). But the Ottoman census figures in Karpat's table (pages 262 and 271 of his article) give the number of Muslims as 158,379 and of the Christians as 39,884, making a total number of 198,263 non-Jews in "the Jewish settled areas." If we use Cuinet's own figures we still do not get an estimate of the non-Jewish population that brings us much closer to the number of non-Jews claimed by Mrs. Peters. According to Cuinet's data on the seven Ottoman subdistricts comprising "the Jewish-settled areas" we have 124,686 Muslims and 61,964 Christians, a total of 186,263 non-Jews.[3] Obviously, these figures are more than double the figure of 92,000 non-Jews given in Mrs. Peters's book.
Well asshole. Here:
ReplyDelete<span style="">Page 1</span><span style="font-family: Times; "><span style=" font-family: Times;">
<div style="position: absolute; top: 228px; left: 135px;">Britain and the Muslim World: Historical Perspectives - University of Exeter 17-19 April 2009</div>
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<div style="position: absolute; top: 283px; left: 197px;">Reincarnating Palestinian Literature: British Modernism and</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 306px; left: 363px;">the Birth of Al-Hadatha’</div>
</span></span> <span style="font-family: Times; "><span style=" font-family: Times;">
<div style="position: absolute; top: 386px; left: 182px;">This paper will look at the influence of the British mandate on Palestinian</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 426px; left: 135px;">literature, arguing that the former helped establish modern Palestinian/Arabic literature.</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 466px; left: 135px;">This was done through the introduction of European modernism to Arab writing, which</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 506px; left: 135px;">led to the creation of a new literary school known as Al-Hadatha (nearest translation is</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 546px; left: 135px;">renovation rather than modernism as commonly mistaken).</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 586px; left: 182px;">Palestinian literature did not take on its national and regional characteruntil the</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 626px; left: 135px;">twentieth century. Before that, it was subsumed within Arabic literature, which in turn</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 666px; left: 135px;">experienced stages of decline from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This is</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 705px; left: 135px;">because the Ottoman government forced many writers, architects and artists to leave</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 745px; left: 135px;">their countries of origin and live in Istanbul which was the capital of the Ottoman</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 785px; left: 135px;">Empire.This led to a deficiency in the content of Arabic literature as it became a</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 825px; left: 135px;">mechanism by which favours could be gained from the Sultan. Those writers who</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 865px; left: 135px;">remained, usually middle class poets, struggled to achieve aroyal patronage. Their</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 905px; left: 135px;">poetry became competitive in writing about the greatness of the Sultan in hope that they</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 945px; left: 135px;">would also be favoured, and subsequently invited to move to his palace.Arab literature</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 985px; left: 135px;">at that time consisted of eulogies in poetic form, or travel writing about the wealthy</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 1025px; left: 135px;">corners of the royal empire. An exampleof this writing is seen in Saleem Abu El-</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 1065px; left: 135px;">Eqbal’s (1850-1914) poetry (fromAbdel Rahman Yaghi’s Life of Modern Palestinian</div>
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This questionaire through which we went before on As'ad's site many times is a prepared sheet that you and your likes throw in discussions over the internet because you know that very few are going to sit down and answer your silly, illmeaning questions. We aren't here responding to our govn't appeal to wage a war on contrary blogs and we keep documents in files ready to go whenever a genocidal Judeonazis of your sort points his muzzle on this site.
ReplyDeleteDo we have to listen to the SAME Zionist horse shit every time? Guest, let me ask a favor - have someone update your lie book please. Your "arguments" are like the proves for the tooth fairy...lol
ReplyDeleteLook, "guest," please do me a favor. Have someone update your bad lies book please? LOL You might as well be showing proofs for the tooth fairy :)
ReplyDeleteHere's for you baboon:
ReplyDelete<div style="position: absolute; top: 586px; left: 182px;">alestinian literature did not take on its national and regional characteruntil the</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 626px; left: 135px;">twentieth century. Before that, it was subsumed within Arabic literature, which in turn</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 666px; left: 135px;">experienced stages of decline from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This is</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 705px; left: 135px;">because the Ottoman government forced many writers, architects and artists to leave</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 745px; left: 135px;">their countries of origin and live in Istanbul which was the capital of the Ottoman</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 785px; left: 135px;">Empire.This led to a deficiency in the content of Arabic literature as it became a</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 825px; left: 135px;">mechanism by which favours could be gained from the Sultan. Those writers who</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 865px; left: 135px;">remained, usually middle class poets, struggled to achieve aroyal patronage. Their</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 905px; left: 135px;">poetry became competitive in writing about the greatness of the Sultan in hope that they</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 945px; left: 135px;">would also be favoured, and subsequently invited to move to his palace.Arab literature</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 985px; left: 135px;">at that time consisted of eulogies in poetic form, or travel writing about the wealthy</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 1025px; left: 135px;">corners of the royal empire. An exampleof this writing is seen in Saleem Abu El-</div>
<div style="position: absolute; top: 1065px; left: 135px;">Eqbal’s (1850-1914) poetry (fromAbdel Rahman Yaghi’s Life of Modern Palestinia</div>
That's yishai kohen the judeonazi.
ReplyDeleteJoan Peters' book "From Time Immemorial" was amply demonstrated to be a fluke. One of the debunkers is Norman Finkelstein.
ReplyDeleteThough we could do just that!
ReplyDeletejust copy and paste your comments brfore submitting Jemmy. If they vanish, paste them!
ReplyDeleteIt may have been demonstrated to be a fluke, but the zionists apparently haven't been infomed of that. So I thought I would do them a community service. ;)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, it was precisely through Finkelstein's site, that I got that information.
Finklestein - oh yeah, that's a reliable source.
ReplyDeleteWhen will Palestinians define themselves with something positive instead of jew-bashing?