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Title: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: Zainab_M on February 27, 2009, 04:20:28 am
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Title: Re: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: Heba E. Husseyn on February 27, 2009, 08:03:34 pm
Ya MaashAllah!  great one!!

Doesn't it bring to mind that piece from T. Ali's work (http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq12302008.html)

"And Israeli citizens might ponder the following words from Shakespeare [The Merchant of Venice] that I have slightly altered:

‘I am a Palestinian. Hath not a Palestinian eyes? Hath not a Palestinian hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Jew is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that…the villainy you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.’  "


Title: Re: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: N. Truth Seeker on February 27, 2009, 08:17:03 pm
A brilliant picket.  It also reminds me of that bit from Bock the Robber's   (http://bocktherobber.com/2008/01/zionism-and-nazism-spot-the-difference) blog included in post Zionism=Nazism. (http://muslimvilla.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=1802.0)


Quote

"Suppose you conquer a country through violence, ethnic cleansing and destruction of villages.

And suppose you drive out a peaceful people so that you can steal their homes and their farms.

And suppose you herd them together into a tiny strip of land, causing one of the highest population densities in the world.

And suppose you force them to live in conditions of poverty, filth and deprivation, where open sewers run in the streets.

And suppose you build a gigantic wall around these people to keep them in.

And suppose you guard this wall with machine-gun towers.

And suppose you routinely bomb these people.

And suppose you cut off all electricity.

And suppose you cut off all food supplies.

And suppose, when they resist, you call them terrorists.

What would you call this place where 1.5 million people are concentrated in appalling conditions under armed guard?

I’d call it a concentration camp, but you might call it the Gaza Strip.  Of course, you might also call it a ghetto.

And what would you call the people who caused this?

I’d call them Nazis, but you’d probably call them Israelis.

It’s hard to tell the two apart these days."

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Title: Re: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: Zainab_M on February 27, 2009, 08:26:52 pm
Yes, it's a fantastic picket.  thanks.  My cousin sent it to me recently.  And yes, right, the thoughts expressed in those two pieces compliment the authenticity of this picket.

Btw - sister Heba, thanks very much for the that pp slide show on Palestine Once Upon a Time. (http://muslimvilla.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=1785.0)  It was absolutely fabulous. I loved it and sent it around. 

I would suggest please also add the additional info and images you put in that show.


Title: Re: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: N. Truth Seeker on February 27, 2009, 08:29:46 pm
Btw - sister Heba, thanks very much for the that pp slide show on Palestine Once Upon a Time. (http://muslimvilla.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=1785.0)  It was absolutely fabulous. I loved it and sent it around. 

How come I didn't receive it ..... or was it not sent my way :( ----  ;D


Title: Re: Picketing in Gaza
Post by: Heba E. Husseyn on February 27, 2009, 08:40:37 pm

Btw - sister Heba, thanks very much for the that pp slide show on Palestine Once Upon a Time. (http://muslimvilla.smfforfree.com/index.php?topic=1785.0)  It was absolutely fabulous. I loved it and sent it around. 

I would suggest please also add the additional info and images you put in that show.


Thank u so much for appreciating it, sister Zeynab :)  Everyone I sent it to loved it.  Takes one right down the 'memory lane.'  And .. ok, I'll add in that thread here the extra contents of that show. 

How come I didn't receive it ..... or was it not sent my way :( ----  ;D

Of course I sent it to u too, brother :)  Just check again, sometimes it drops off into the spam box.  If you deleted the spam box today without checking the stuff in it, then let me know.  I'll re-send it.