Monday, November 8, 2010
Photos longtime forgotten..
A poster on Mondoweiss, Avi, was talking about some photos he got hold of from a friend..Old, neglected, forgotten photos of Palestine at the turn of the 19th century.. I was very interested in having a look at them and posting them..He took great care in restoring/cleaning them and here they are, rarely seen before or not seen for a long time. Many thanks to you Avi in case you're reading this..
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Wonderful photos!
ReplyDeleteYes, they are..Only the family who owned them knew about them and now they've been restored and posted on Flickr by Avi.
ReplyDeleteSo this was NOT a land without a people? I'm shocked!
ReplyDeleteAbu Zuhair
ReplyDeleteThis guy, Talknic, has an interesting entry on his blog about this:
Israel vs Palestine. Contrary to the Hasbara, Palestine has existed far longer than any Jewish kingdom or Jewish State
Basic maths: Since the Roman era, i.e., about 2,000 of the 3,200 year history of the Jewish people, the region in all it’s forms and under a number rules, has been known as Palestine. During this 2,000 year period, longer than there ever was a Jewish Kingdom or a Jewish State, Jewish folk living in Palestine were, like Palestine’s other folk, Palestinians. After having areas declared independent of it, TransJordan 1946, Israel 1948, what remains is still Palestine. The name has not changed for over two thousand years
In denying the existence of Palestine, the Jewish population who lived in Palestine throughout the diaspora are being denied their Jewish Palestinian history.
http://talknic.wordpress.com/
A very interesting blog, BTW.
<span>Abu Zuhair
ReplyDeleteThis guy, Talknic, has an interesting entry on his blog about this:
Israel vs Palestine. Contrary to the Hasbara, Palestine has existed far longer than any Jewish kingdom or Jewish State
Basic maths: Since the Roman era, i.e., about 2,000 of the 3,200 year history of the Jewish people, the region in all it’s forms and under a number rules, has been known as Palestine. During this 2,000 year period, longer than there ever was a Jewish Kingdom or a Jewish State, Jewish folk living in Palestine were, like Palestine’s other folk, Palestinians. After having areas declared independent of it, TransJordan 1946, Israel 1948, what remains is still Palestine. The name has not changed for over two thousand years
http://talknic.wordpress.com/
A very interesting blog, BTW.</span>
Thanks TG!
ReplyDelete<span><span>The Zionists drew on this ancient spiritual potential to build a political movement. A stirring slogan was spread abroad:</span></span>
ReplyDelete<span>"A land without people for a people without land"</span><span>
</span><span><span>ignoring the fact that the Palestinians themselves, well over half a million at the turn of the century, lived in Palestine, that it was their home. The great Zionist humanist, Ahad Ha'am warned against the violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, and his words are well known in the literature of Palestine. </span></span><span>
</span><span>"Ahad Ha'am warned that the settlers must under no circumstances arouse the wrath of the natives ... 'Yet what do our brethren do in Palestine? Just the very opposite! Serfs they were in the lands of the Diaspora and suddenly they find themselves in unrestricted freedom and this change has awakened in them an inclination to despotism. They treat the Arabs with hostility and cruelty, deprive them of their rights, offend them without cause and even boast of these deeds; and nobody among us opposes this despicable and dangerous inclination ...'</span>
<span>"Ahad Ha'am returned to the Arab problem ... in February 1914 ... '[the Zionists] wax angry towards those who remind them that there is still another people in Eretz Yisrael that has been living there and does not intend at all to leave its place. In a future when this illusion will have been torn from their hearts and they will look with open eyes upon the reality as it is, they will certainly understand how important this question is and how great our duty to work for its solution'." </span>
<span><span>But Ahad Ha'am's plea went unheeded as political zionism set about to realize its goal of a Jewish State. </span></span>
<span><span>Kohn, Hans, "Ahad Ha'am: Nationalist with a Difference" in Smith, Gary (ed.): </span></span><span><span><span>Zionism: The Dream and the Reality</span></span></span><span><span> (New York, Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 31-32.</span></span>
<span>"... The same lack of understanding he found in the boycott of Arab labour proclaimed by Jewish labour ... 'Apart from the political danger, I can't put up with the idea that our brethren are morally capable of behaving in such a way to humans of another people, and unwittingly the thought comes to my mind: if it is so now, what will be our relation to the others if in truth we shall achieve at the end of times power in Eretz Yisrael? And if this be the "Messiah": I do not wish to see his coming.'</span>
ReplyDelete<span><span>Kohn, Hans, "Ahad Ha'am: Nationalist with a Difference" in Smith, Gary (ed.): </span></span><span><span><span>Zionism: The Dream and the Reality</span></span></span><span><span> (New York, Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 31-32.</span></span>